{"id":13635,"date":"2018-09-02T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13635"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:23:57","slug":"bringing-a-billion-oysters-back-to-new-york-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13635","title":{"rendered":"Bringing a billion oysters back to New York harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"69\">\n<p>New York City is home to more than eight million people &#8211; and now, more than 26 million oysters.<\/p>\n<p>Oysters were once plentiful in the city&#8217;s waters. Then, they virtually disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists and volunteers are attempting to return New York&#8217;s waterways to their former glory as part of the Billion Oyster Project. The oysters are not for eating, but they have huge benefits for the local ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Kristen Saloomey has been following their efforts in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is home to more than eight million people &#8211; and now, more than 26 million oysters. Oysters were once plentiful in the city&#8217;s waters. Then, they virtually disappeared. Now, scientists and volunteers are attempting to return New York&#8217;s waterways to their former glory as part of the Billion Oyster Project. The oysters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}