{"id":1041,"date":"2010-10-25T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2010-11-24T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:16:34","slug":"why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-death-tuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-death-tuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t go in the water: Death Tuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starkist be-damned, &#8220;Chicken of the Sea&#8221; is an incredible misnomer. They&#8217;re actually quite big, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_bluefin_tuna\">bluefin tuna<\/a> can get up to nearly 1,000 pounds, if people weren&#8217;t busy catching them and shoving them into cans. And while they are cow-sized, not chicken-sized, they are unlike cows in that they are a) predators and b) like, nine feet long. Also, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.com.ph\/articles\/284151\/scuba-diver-pulled-down-300-feet-below-giant-tuna\">this article from the Philippines<\/a>, they will try to drag you to your death, given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;scuba diver Ramir Te, who was on a diving expedition, was 80 feet below the surface when he was pulled down by a giant tuna fish at the waters off Kiamba afternoon of Sunday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Oooh, sorry Charlie. Hope he didn&#8217;t get lead poisoning along with the bends. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mb.com.ph\/sites\/default\/files\/tuna.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its generally good thing that cows and tuna don&#8217;t chat. Better yet, maybe we ought to take the warning and just cut back on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccat.int\/en\/\">tuna consumption<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starkist be-damned, &#8220;Chicken of the Sea&#8221; is an incredible misnomer. They&#8217;re actually quite big, and the bluefin tuna can get up to nearly 1,000 pounds, if people weren&#8217;t busy catching them and shoving them into cans. And while they are cow-sized, not chicken-sized, they are unlike cows in that they are a) predators and b) [&hellip;]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","tag-fking-attack-tuna","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-gN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}