{"id":8407,"date":"2013-01-14T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:55:48","slug":"polar-expedition-sets-sail-bearing-the-commonwealth-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2013\/01\/polar-expedition-sets-sail-bearing-the-commonwealth-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar expedition sets sail bearing the Commonwealth flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Tower Bridge was raised on 6 December to allow the South African icebreaker, the SA Agulhas, to sail down the River Thames, marking the start of its journey to Antarctica for the first-ever winter crossing of the frozen continent.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth-flagged adventure, under the leadership of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, is considered the last great polar challenge: a 2,000 mile trek across the South Pole, in near darkness and with temperatures that could reach minus 90 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8216;The Coldest Journey&#8217;, the expedition aims to raise $10 million for Seeing is Believing, an international initiative to combat avoidable blindness, which operates in 15 Commonwealth developing countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Tower Bridge was raised on 6 December to allow the South African icebreaker, the SA Agulhas, to sail down the River Thames, marking the start of its journey to Antarctica for the first-ever winter crossing of the frozen continent. The Commonwealth-flagged adventure, under the leadership of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, is considered the last great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}