{"id":457,"date":"2010-06-06T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-06-06T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T14:23:35","slug":"nigerian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/06\/nigerian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every day at Bonny Island, oceangoing tankers line up in Cawthorne Channel like massive parade floats. Theyre each waiting to fill up with close to a million barrels of the coveted Bonny Light, drawing the oil from a nearby export terminal. Ships have been gathering at this 15-mile-long 24 kilometers barrier island since the mid-1500s, when slave trading between West Africa and the New World began.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2007\/02\/nigerian-oil\/oneill-text\/2\">Nigerian Oil &#8211; National Geographic Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day at Bonny Island, oceangoing tankers line up in Cawthorne Channel like massive parade floats. Theyre each waiting to fill up with close to a million barrels of the coveted Bonny Light, drawing the oil from a nearby export terminal. Ships have been gathering at this 15-mile-long 24 kilometers barrier island since the mid-1500s, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/06\/nigerian-oil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigerian Oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,39,89],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-community","tag-crap","tag-injustice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}