{"id":25112,"date":"2018-12-11T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25112"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:23:18","slug":"french-swimmer-steps-onto-land-in-hawaii-6-months-after-entering-ocean-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25112","title":{"rendered":"French swimmer steps onto land in Hawaii 6 months after entering ocean in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A French swimmer has stepped ashore in Hawaii more than six months after entering the water in Japan in an attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Beno\u00eet &#8220;Ben&#8221; Lecomte, 51, set off June 5 from his <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/06\/05\/asia\/cross-pacific-swim-intl\/\" target=\"_blank\">starting point of Ch\u014dshi, Japan<\/a>. His aim was to reach San Francisco, 5,500 miles away, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/03\/23\/world\/plastic-great-pacific-garbage-patch-intl\/index.html\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a> in a bid to raise awareness of plastic pollution. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lecomte, the associate director of sustainability services at a consulting firm, said he hoped his endeavor would double as a scientific study on climate change, health and pollution.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A French swimmer has stepped ashore in Hawaii more than six months after entering the water in Japan in an attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean.Beno\u00eet &#8220;Ben&#8221; Lecomte, 51, set off June 5 from his starting point of Ch\u014dshi, Japan. His aim was to reach San Francisco, 5,500 miles away, via the Great Pacific&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112","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=25112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}