{"id":439,"date":"2018-06-12T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2019-06-12T06:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:54:57","slug":"world-seagrass-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/archives\/439","title":{"rendered":"World Seagrass Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"440\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/archives\/439\/e3c81edd-1845-4cbf-a159-e393a479d6ef\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,663\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF-300x199.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-440 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/E3C81EDD-1845-4CBF-A159-E393A479D6EF.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>After launching the <em>World #Seagrass Day<\/em> petition this morning we already have more than 20 signatories, before the end of @ISBW2018 and #WSC2018 we should have at least ten times more than that. Please lend your support and reach out to your networks. Learn about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/world-seagrass-day\/\">global campaign for World Seagrass Day<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After launching the World #Seagrass Day petition this morning we already have more than 20 signatories, before the end of @ISBW2018 and #WSC2018 we should have at least ten times more than that. Please lend your support and reach out to your networks. Learn about the\u00a0global campaign for World Seagrass Day now. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"World #Seagrass Day petition launched by @ISBW2018 and @Seagrass_WSA at #WSC2018, please find out more at http:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/world-seagrass-day\/ and sign on","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Cwsq-75","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":199,"url":"https:\/\/wsa.seagrassonline.org\/blog\/archives\/199","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":0},"title":"Notes from the Field: South Florida","author":"Siti","date":"23 May, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"22nd May is International Day for Biodiversity and the theme for 2012 is Marine Biodiversity. 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