{"id":425,"date":"2013-02-18T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=425"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:45:48","slug":"the-lightship-swiftsure-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"The Lightship Swiftsure &#8211; Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7889187520\/\" title=\"Swiftsure by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Swiftsure\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7889187520_84e93618a9-300x168.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The lightship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hnsa.org\/ships\/swiftsure.htm\">Swiftsure<\/a> is retired at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nwseaport.org\/\">Northwest Seaport<\/a> in Seattle. She was launched in 1904 and worked on the west coast at various places as a lightship &nbsp;for 56 years and was retired from service in 1960.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7889185094\/\" title=\"Swiftsure by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Swiftsure\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7889185094_8853beffae-300x168.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">During World War II she worked for the Coast Guard challenging vessels trying to enter San Francisco Bay.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She is looking good and is still afloat in her retirement and is a National Historic Landmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Our World Tuesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lightship Swiftsure is retired at the Northwest Seaport in Seattle. She was launched in 1904 and worked on the west coast at various places as a lightship &nbsp;for 56 years and was retired from service in 1960.&nbsp; During World War II she worked for the Coast Guard challenging vessels trying to enter San Francisco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,462,461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-world","category-seattle","category-ships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}