{"id":6761,"date":"2016-09-15T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2016-09-15T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:59:07","slug":"traditional-whaling-in-the-faroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/09\/15\/traditional-whaling-in-the-faroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional whaling in the Faroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/09\/in-the-faroe-islands-we-butcher-whales-heres-why\/\">Spectator<\/a> has an article by Heri Joensen, the lead singer of Tyr, a Faroese heavy metal band, on his social media problems after he confessed to taking part in a\u00a0<em>grindadr\u00e1p,\u00a0<\/em>the hunting of long-finned pilot whales when they get close in-shore to the Faroe islands. \u00a0There's a lot of detail (informative \/ horrific according to taste) on the killing of the whales and of the place of whaling in the community life of the Faroe islanders. \u00a0There's also a lot on what Joensen sees as the\u00a0hypocrisy around the opposition to the killing of non-endangered whales, especially by those who continue to condone routine\u00a0slaughterhouse (mal)practices.<\/p>\n<p>Joensen's mistake was not so much to be part of the\u00a0<em>grindadr\u00e1p,<\/em> but to post a picture on Facebook of his part in it. \u00a0As Aeschylus\u00a0had it: \"<em>Those who live by social media, ... .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week's\u00a0Spectator has an article by Heri Joensen, the lead singer of Tyr, a Faroese heavy metal band, on his social media problems after he confessed to taking part in a\u00a0grindadr\u00e1p,\u00a0the hunting of long-finned pilot whales when they get close...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}