{"id":677409,"date":"2010-02-25T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23326"},"modified":"2010-02-25T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:30:21","slug":"anarchy-on-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677409","title":{"rendered":"Anarchy On The High Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One imagines that Hollywood studios will be bidding furiously for this raunchy tale, as described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61N58120100224\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Violence, drunkenness and all manner of debauchery featured on a six-month voyage on a migrant ship bound for Australia 170 years ago, a newly discovered diary reveals. The raunchy tale of anarchy on the high seas is recorded by a junior officer, James Bell, aboard &#8220;The Planter&#8221; which sailed to Adelaide from Deptford in east London in 1838.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol-fueled acts of &#8220;great violence&#8221; involving officers, mates and even the ship&#8217;s doctor are all recounted. In the green vellum-bound journal, Bell tells how the captain regularly entertained two of the 11 daughters of a doctor-preacher from Liverpool called McGowan.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8220;our captain of course could not want a mistress till he returned to his own in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One imagines that Hollywood studios will be bidding furiously for this raunchy tale, as described by Reuters: Violence, drunkenness and all manner of debauchery featured on a six-month voyage on a migrant ship bound for Australia 170 years ago, a newly discovered diary reveals. The raunchy tale of anarchy on the high seas is recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QdX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}