{"id":49430,"date":"2013-07-11T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/watch-live-greenpeace-activists-scale-uks-tallest-building-to-protest-arctic-drilling\/49430\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:19:39","slug":"watch-live-greenpeace-activists-scale-uks-tallest-building-to-protest-arctic-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/watch-live-greenpeace-activists-scale-uks-tallest-building-to-protest-arctic-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Live: Greenpeace Activists Scale UK&#039;s Tallest Building to Protest Arctic Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six women activists from Greenpeace are in the process of scaling Britain&#8217;s tallest building, known as <em>the Shard<\/em> for its ice-like design, in a dramatic protest against ongoing plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>Watch their ascent here:<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace was providing live voice-over commentary on their live stream as people around the world watched the climbers make their way up the side of the skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the events on the Greenpeace\/UK Twitter feed:<\/p>\n<p>The group of climbers released this photo of themselves before beginning their climb:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" class=\"image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imce-images\/greenpeace-activists-befo-010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>Republished with permission from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/07\/11\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Watch Live: Greenpeace Activists Scale UK&#039;s Tallest Building to Protest Arctic Drilling\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six women activists from Greenpeace are in the process of scaling Britain&#8217;s tallest building, known as the Shard for its ice-like design, in a dramatic protest against ongoing plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. Watch their ascent here: Greenpeace was providing live voice-over commentary on their live stream as people around the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}