{"id":4727,"date":"2021-11-26T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2021-11-26T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T01:34:38","slug":"aviator-opens-fire-with-machine-gun-killing-huge-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/aviator-opens-fire-with-machine-gun-killing-huge-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviator Opens Fire With Machine Gun, Killing Huge Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/?a=d&#038;d=SFC19190121.2.146&#038;srpos=1&#038;e=------191-en--20-SFC-1-byDA-txt-txIN-Imperial+Beach----1919---1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Call, 21 January 1919<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21.\u2014 Lieutenant James<br \/>\nMcCullough of Ream aviation field is<br \/>\ndeclared to be the gunner who slew<br \/>\nthe whale that washed ashore at<br \/>\nImperial beach last week.<br \/>\nAccording to reports from Ream field<br \/>\nthe whale rose two miles off shore<br \/>\nand spouted defiance at lieutenant McCullough,<br \/>\nwho was practicing aerial gunnery.<br \/>\nThe aviator accepted the challenge by opening<br \/>\nfire on the leviathan with a machine gun as he<br \/>\nflew over it.<br \/>\nThe whale&#8217;s track was riddled by bullets,<br \/>\nthe lieutenant\u2019s fellow aviators say.<br \/>\nAs a result of his feat whale hunting promises<br \/>\nto become a popular sport among fliers stationed<br \/>\nalong the coast here.<\/p>\n<p><em>No comment on this outrage &#8211; JS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Call, 21 January 1919 SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21.\u2014 Lieutenant James McCullough of Ream aviation field is declared to be the gunner who slew the whale that washed ashore at Imperial beach last week. According to reports from Ream field the whale rose two miles off shore and spouted defiance at lieutenant McCullough, who &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/aviator-opens-fire-with-machine-gun-killing-huge-whale\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,3279,17],"tags":[223,3760,3761,3762,3758,3759],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4727","6":"format-standard","7":"category-california-history","8":"category-california-newspaper-archive","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-the-anthropocene","11":"category-thinking-about","12":"post_tag-aviator","13":"post_tag-leviathan","14":"post_tag-machine-gun","15":"post_tag-ream-aviation-field","16":"post_tag-whale","17":"post_tag-whale-hunting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}