{"id":16061,"date":"2018-03-22T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16061"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:14:21","slug":"worlds-largest-collection-of-ocean-garbage-is-now-twice-the-size-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/worlds-largest-collection-of-ocean-garbage-is-now-twice-the-size-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s largest collection of ocean garbage is now twice the size of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twice the size of Texas. That’s…well, actually that’s about the size of Alaska…and, unfortunately also the size of the plastic island of doom in the Pacific.
\nNice job, humanity. We really suck at treating our world as if we need it to survive.
\nWe do, you know. Just saying.<\/p>\n

The Article ‘World’s largest collection of ocean garbage is now twice the size of Texas’ originally appeared on https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/03\/22\/great-pacific-garbage-patch-grows\/446405002\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Jamie’s comments are his own.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twice the size of Texas. That’s…well, actually that’s about the size of Alaska…and, unfortunately also the size of the plastic island of doom in the Pacific. Nice job, humanity. We really suck at treating our world as if we need it to survive. We do, you know. Just saying. The Article ‘World’s largest collection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-16061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10193,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/fukushima-radiation-has-contaminated-the-entire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-to-get-worse\/","url_meta":{"origin":16061,"position":0},"title":"Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean \u2013 And It\u2019s Going To Get Worse","date":"October 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"300 Tons a DAY...Still Leaking. 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