{"id":539,"date":"2009-02-20T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-02-20T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:29:55","slug":"wexford-coast-first-the-bakkers-now-peril-from-the-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/wexford-coast-first-the-bakkers-now-peril-from-the-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford coast: first the Bakkers, now peril from the seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Anita and I drove through one of the few regions of Ireland we had not yet visited: the Sunny Southeast. In February, County Wexford is not so sunny, but it was a worthwhile trip nonetheless. Naturally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/sets\/72157614063098985\/\">we posted a photoset of our trip for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I rushed this set of photos to the blog because some of the places we visited are under threat from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/waves-of-oil-threaten-beaches-1643201.html\">a large oil slick in the Irish Sea<\/a>. <!--more-->Two Russian Navy ships <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.ie\/national-news\/russia-denies-its-responsible-for-oil-spill-off-coast-1643601.html\">may have<\/a> created the oil spill during a refueling operation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/oil-slick-off-coast-visible--from-space-1644950.html\">As of yesterday<\/a>, it&#8217;s not clear how the oil was spilled or whether it will hit the Wexford coast. The Bugle will continue to monitor the situation from its Dublin HQ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/3282746264\/\" title=\"Hook Head at low tide by wfbakker2, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3575\/3282746264_c8c0a2b19b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" alt=\"Hook Head at low tide\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/3281942399\/\" title=\"Hook Head\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3542\/3281942399_2d61d71555.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" alt=\"IMGP6392b\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/3282768616\/\" title=\"Anita and Hook Head lighthouse by wfbakker2, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3625\/3282768616_682054fa86.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Anita and Hook Head lighthouse\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, Anita and I drove through one of the few regions of Ireland we had not yet visited: the Sunny Southeast. In February, County Wexford is not so sunny, but it was a worthwhile trip nonetheless. Naturally, we posted a photoset of our trip for you. I rushed this set of photos to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[452,453,759,454,448,455,449,450,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}