{"id":548,"date":"2018-05-05T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=548"},"modified":"2018-05-05T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T14:51:26","slug":"even-balloon-releases-have-a-lobbying-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Even Balloon Releases Have A Lobbying Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/050518_1451_EvenBalloon1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Balloon releases litter the landscape and sometimes endanger marine wildlife, but stopping these releases can be challenging.\n<\/p>\n<p>One reason is a group called the Balloon Council, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/plastic\/ever-heard-powerful-balloon-council.html\">Treehugger.<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>The article also informs us there is a way to fight back.\n<\/p>\n<p>An organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/balloonsblow.org\/\">Balloons Blow<\/a> offers fact sheets on the environmental damage balloons cause.\n<\/p>\n<p>This a really relevant topic as graduations are occurring all over Florida and other events such as weddings are common at this time of year. Both sometimes include balloon  releases.\n<\/p>\n<p>If you hear one is planned talk to organizers and ask them to celebrate in a more sensitive manner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloon releases litter the landscape and sometimes endanger marine wildlife, but stopping these releases can be challenging. One reason is a group called the Balloon Council, according to Treehugger. The article also informs us there is a way to fight back. An organization called Balloons Blow offers fact sheets on the environmental damage balloons cause. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}