{"id":1374,"date":"2024-09-03T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T10:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2024-09-03T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T10:33:32","slug":"the-sad-end-of-hvaldimir-the-beluga-whale-who-might-or-might-not-have-been-a-russian-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"The sad end of Hvaldimir the beluga whale who might or might not have been a Russian spy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hvaldimir_7209-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Ein Dahmer\/Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, fishermen in the Arctic North of Norway came across a very friendly beluga whale, wearing a harness and camera that prompted speculations he was a Russian spy. Last weekend Hvaldimir \u2013 as he was quickly named \u2013 was found dead in the South-West of Norway. I spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/radio1\/clips\/22428635\/\">Today with Claire Byrne on RTE <\/a>about Hvaldimir&#8217;s life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/RTE-Hvaldimir-death.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Ein Dahmer\/Wikipedia In 2019, fishermen in the Arctic North of Norway came across a very friendly beluga whale, wearing a harness and camera that prompted speculations he was a Russian spy. Last weekend Hvaldimir \u2013 as he was quickly named \u2013 was found dead in the South-West of Norway. I spoke to Today with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}