{"id":14188,"date":"2004-04-30T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/polar-bears-greet-sub-in-arctic\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:04:00","slug":"polar-bears-greet-sub-in-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/polar-bears-greet-sub-in-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Bears Greet Sub In Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coasttocoastam.com\/gen\/page428.html?theme=light\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"polar bears greet sub\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/polarbear_sub.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coasttocoastam.com\/gen\/page428.html?theme=light\" target=\"_blank\">polar bears greeting a submarine surfacing through the Arctic ice<\/a> &ldquo;were taken by Capt. Myron Balchin Sr. of the <i>Los Angeles<\/i>-class fast attack submarine <i>USS Honolulu<\/i>, 280 miles from the North Pole.&rdquo;  I guess it shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprising to see this kind of encounter.  In fact, &ldquo;during the ICEX 2003 naval exercises near the North Pole, the American submarine <i>Connecticut<\/i> (SSN 22) poked its sail and rudder through the ice&rdquo; and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/gallery\/default.asp?target=bear_sub1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">polar bear attacked the rear rudder<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/growabrain.typepad.com\/growabrain\/\" target=\"_blank\">growabrain<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108333388632261445?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of polar bears greeting a submarine surfacing through the Arctic ice &ldquo;were taken by Capt. Myron Balchin Sr. of the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Honolulu, 280 miles from the North Pole.&rdquo; I guess it shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprising to see this kind of encounter. In fact, &ldquo;during the ICEX 2003 naval exercises &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/polar-bears-greet-sub-in-arctic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polar Bears Greet Sub In Arctic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}