{"id":543,"date":"2018-10-09T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T09:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/?p=543"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T18:10:29","slug":"the-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/the-infestation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t expect this when I got up this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-544\" src=\"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181008_170357-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181008_170357-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181008_170357-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181008_170357-1024x498.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t there when I went over the side on the way back from the Azores. The bottom was as clean as a whistle.<\/p>\n<p>After a lot of Facebook discussion, Poole Harbour gets the blame. Apparently we&#8217;ve had so many really wet summers (until this year) that the nitrate fertilizers have been washed straight off the farmland into the rivers and estuaries, dramatically altering the eco-system. And, of course, Poole doesn&#8217;t get flushed out as thoroughly as an estuary.<\/p>\n<p>It seems they&#8217;re goose barnacles. I&#8217;ll have to find a better place to scrape them off, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t expect this when I got up this morning. They weren\u2019t there when I went over the side on the way back from the Azores. The bottom was as clean as a whistle. After a lot of Facebook discussion, Poole Harbour gets the blame. Apparently we&#8217;ve had so many really wet summers (until this &#8230; <a title=\"The Infestation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/the-infestation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Infestation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}