{"id":939,"date":"2012-10-02T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=939"},"modified":"2012-10-02T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:50:45","slug":"photo-of-the-week-former-uscgc-sundew-wlb-404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week &#8211; Former USCGC Sundew WLB 404"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarkham\/8025546220\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8457\/8025546220_1b64c47c71.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarkham\/8025546220\/\">North Shore Trip &#8211; Fall 2012 &#8211; Former USCGC Sundew WLB 404<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarkham\/\">pmarkham<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tThose that know me well know that one of my frequent subjects for photos is ships and boats.  I&#8217;m fascinated by them.  This particular ship is a favorite of mine.  It is the former USCGC Sundew, a light ice breaker and buoy tender that served the USCG for almost 60 years before it was retired and replaced by the USCGC Alder.  <\/p>\n<p>Sundew was built in Duluth and had its final home port be Duluth as well.  After being retired, it was given to the city of Duluth to be used as a museum ship, which lasted only five years.  After that, the city sold the vessel to a local man named Jeff Foster, who now uses it as his personal pleasure boat.  Some pleasure boat, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Shore Trip &#8211; Fall 2012 &#8211; Former USCGC Sundew WLB 404, originally uploaded by pmarkham. Those that know me well know that one of my frequent subjects for photos is ships and boats. I&#8217;m fascinated by them. This particular ship is a favorite of mine. It is the former USCGC Sundew, a light ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}