{"id":9966,"date":"2014-05-12T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2014-05-12T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:21:26","slug":"royal-ontario-museums-plans-to-recover-second-blue-whale-up-in-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/12\/royal-ontario-museums-plans-to-recover-second-blue-whale-up-in-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Ontario Museum&#8217;s plans to recover second blue whale up in air"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9968\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/royal-ontario-museum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9968\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/royal-ontario-museum.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Royal Ontario Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/royal-ontario-museum.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/royal-ontario-museum-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/royal-ontario-museum-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Royal Ontario Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WOODY POINT, N.L. &#8211; Work continues to dismember a blue whale near Woody Point, N.L., today but plans for a second blue whale beached in nearby Rocky Harbour are still up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Engstrom of Toronto&#8217;s Royal Ontario Museum says he&#8217;ll likely know by Tuesday whether his team can take it on as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed the two whales are among nine that were crushed or drowned in heavy sea ice earlier this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is labelling each bone and preserving samples that will be trucked to Ontario and later available to global scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials had asked for help to deal with the huge carcasses after the federal government said it wasn&#8217;t responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Engstrom says he had hoped to dismember both whales but it&#8217;s a massive job that has cost more than expected.<\/p>\n<p>He expects to finish work on the first whale on schedule Tuesday, five days after work began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOODY POINT, N.L. &#8211; Work continues to dismember a blue whale near Woody Point, N.L., today but plans for a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3241],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-torontos-royal-ontario-museum","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}