{"id":166,"date":"2008-11-19T20:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:23:41","slug":"pirates-are-the-new-gangsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/pirates-are-the-new-gangsters\/","title":{"rendered":"PIRATES are the New Gangsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Somali Pirate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/pirates.jpg\" alt=\"Somali Pirate\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"338\" align=\"right\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gangs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2008-07-20-pirates_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Somali pirates<\/a> armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades have been hijacking ships and holding crews for ransom&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/voanews.com\/english\/2008-11-19-voa37.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Even a super-tanker!<\/a> The UN chief says pirates are estimated to have been paid between $25\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/11\/19\/news\/UN-UN-Somalia.php\">30 million in ransom<\/a>. The brazen bandits are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars \u2014 even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages, transforming their<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jCRkrQxbXdCbH0TfHp3oGe_2W1KAD94I73TO0\" target=\"_blank\"> poor villages into boomtowns.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mickey Cohen would be proud of these marauders; terrorizing the high seas and raking in the ca$h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangs of Somali pirates armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades have been hijacking ships and holding crews for ransom&#8230; Even a super-tanker! The UN chief says pirates are estimated to have been paid between $25\/ 30 million in ransom. The brazen bandits are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars \u2014 even hiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5245],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-mickey-cohen","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}