{"id":180,"date":"2008-04-13T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/ksc-beach-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T21:46:01","slug":"ksc-beach-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/ksc-beach-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"KSC Beach Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was able to take part in an annual beach cleanup on the very remote beaches of the Kennedy Space Center.  It was a lot of hard work, but it was pretty cool to take part in this worthy cause.  I put a short video from the beach cleanup on YouTube:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jjT6dTbacg0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jjT6dTbacg0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jjT6dTbacg0&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jjT6dTbacg0&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is an annual event at KSC and it is organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/merrittisland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fish &amp; Wildlife Service<\/a>, who owns most of the land that KSC sits on.  They do this every year before sea turtle nesting season starts.<\/p>\n<p>There were some pretty interesting items that were collected, in addition to a ton of bottles and bottle caps, which I noticed were the most frequent item found.  A lady right directly in front of me found 2 separate messages in bottles. One of them was a letter from a 9 year old girl in the Bahamas who&#8217;s whole class had put messages into bottles for a &#8220;sea-pal&#8221; exercise.  The lady who found the message said she was definitely going to write the little girl back.  I found quite a few bottles, but none with messages.<\/p>\n<p>It was hard work in the hot sun, but I&#8217;m going to sign up again next year.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was able to take part in an annual beach cleanup on the very remote beaches of the Kennedy Space Center. It was a lot of hard work, but it was pretty cool to take part in this worthy cause. I put a short video from the beach cleanup on YouTube: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jjT6dTbacg0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,108],"tags":[31,36,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}