{"id":23856,"date":"2015-09-24T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23856"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:44:25","slug":"major-tom-a-cat-rescued-from-liferaft-with-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/09\/major-tom-a-cat-rescued-from-liferaft-with-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Tom, the Cat, Rescued From Liferaft with Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is very pleased to report that Grant McDonald, who was rescued off the West Australian coast, has now been reunited with his cat Major Tom.\u00a0McDonald set off his emergency beacon after his 42 ft yacht <em>Osprey<\/em>\u00a0began taking on water south of Steep Point, about 170 miles north of Geraldton. AMSA asked the bulk carrier <em>Shi Dai 8<\/em> to divert to the area where they rescued McDonald and Major Tom from a life raft. <a href=\"http:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/major-tom-the-cat-rescued\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is very pleased to report that Grant McDonald, who was rescued off the West Australian coast, has now been reunited with his cat Major Tom.\u00a0McDonald set off his emergency beacon after his 42 ft yacht Osprey\u00a0began taking on water south of Steep Point, about 170 miles north of Geraldton. AMSA asked the bulk carrier Shi Dai 8 to divert to the area where they rescued McDonald and Major Tom from a life raft. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions\/23882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}