{"id":7320,"date":"2018-04-17T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:42:32","slug":"sargassum-seaweed-spotted-on-mayaro-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/sargassum-seaweed-spotted-on-mayaro-beaches.html","title":{"rendered":"Sargassum seaweed spotted on Mayaro beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) said confirmed sightings have been made of sargassum on Mayaro beaches.<\/p>\n<p>The ODPM said it received reports of significant quantities of seaweed\u00a0off the south-eastern coast of Trinidad, mainly on the Mayaro Beach.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6160 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sargassum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sargassum-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sargassum-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sargassum is a genus of large brown seaweed (a type of algae) that floats in island-like masses.<\/p>\n<p>Sargassum seaweed has a strong odour and insects may be present. However, Sargassum seaweed does not sting or irritate skin, nor is the odour toxic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looptt.com\/content\/odpm-sargassum-seaweed-spotted-mayaro-beaches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) said confirmed sightings have been made of sargassum on Mayaro beaches. The ODPM said it received reports of significant quantities of seaweed\u00a0off the south-eastern coast of Trinidad, mainly on the Mayaro Beach.\u00a0 Sargassum is a genus of large brown seaweed (a type of algae) that floats in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaweed","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}