{"id":5826,"date":"2014-08-05T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2014-08-10T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T20:28:06","slug":"just-totally-totally-awesome-tractor-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/05\/just-totally-totally-awesome-tractor-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Totally, Totally Awesome &#8211; Tractor Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/08\/05\/how-the-largest-fish-in-the-sea-ended-up-on-the-roof-of-a-tractor\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>How \u2018the largest fish in the sea\u2019 ended up on the roof of a tractor<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/nick-kirkpatrick\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kirkpatrick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zoom-in\" src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/08\/TS-Hkg10086241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-hi-res-src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/08\/TS-Hkg10086241.jpg\" data-low-res-src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2014\/08\/TS-Hkg10086241.jpg&amp;w=480\" \/><em>A\u00a0dead whale shark being carried on a tractor in a seafood wholesale market in Xiangzhi township in Quanzhou, east China\u2019s Fujian province, on Aug. 1. (AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weighing about\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2014\/08\/03\/massive-whale-shark-fujian.php\" target=\"_blank\">two tons\u00a0<\/a>and measuring\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2014\/08\/fisherman-straps-giant-whale-shark-to-roof-of-truck-to-drive-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">16 feet long<\/a>, this whale shark caused quite an\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/chinese-fisherman-transports-massive-whale-shark-through-streets-of-xiangzhi\/story-fndir2ev-1227012736331\" target=\"_blank\">uproar<\/a>\u00a0in China after it was transported through the streets of Xiangzhi in east China\u2019s Fujian province. According to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.163.com\/photoview\/00AP0001\/71138.html?from=ph_ss#p=A2NDMRMA00AP0001&amp;from=tj_review\" target=\"_blank\">local media<\/a>, a Chinese fisherman caught the whale shark Friday while fishing off Fujian province.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the world\u2019s largest fish, t<span style=\"color: #000000;\">he whale shark can grow up to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/swimming-with-whale-sharks-160147604\/?no-ist=&amp;c=y&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">45 feet<\/a>\u00a0long and live more than\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fish.wa.gov.au\/Documents\/recreational_fishing\/fact_sheets\/fact_sheet_whale_shark.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">100 years.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s highly prized on the black market.\u00a0In January, the environmental group WildLifeRisk\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildliferisk.org\/china-whale-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\">exposed<\/a>\u00a0what it described as \u201cthe biggest ever whale shark slaughterhouse uncovered in southeastern China,\u201d which slaughtered 600 whale sharks annually to produce \u201cshark oil for health supplements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/08\/05\/how-the-largest-fish-in-the-sea-ended-up-on-the-roof-of-a-tractor\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at WaPo.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post How \u2018the largest fish in the sea\u2019 ended up on the roof of a tractor By\u00a0Nick Kirkpatrick A\u00a0dead whale shark being carried on a tractor in a seafood wholesale market in Xiangzhi township in Quanzhou, east China\u2019s Fujian province, on Aug. 1. (AFP\/Getty Images) Weighing about\u00a0two tons\u00a0and measuring\u00a016 feet long, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}