{"id":2709,"date":"2013-09-24T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2013-09-25T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:55:42","slug":"help-save-exploris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Decision on Exploris postponed for two months&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ards Borough Council met tonight, Wed 25th, and have decided to postpone the decision on closing Exploris for a further two months. This gives some breathing space to the groups working to save the Northern Ireland Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2710 aligncenter\" alt=\"exploris\" src=\"http:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/exploris.jpg\" width=\"948\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/exploris.jpg 948w, https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/exploris-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/exploris-500x217.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you feel strongly about this issue, please sign the petition by <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/asqEZMBpaW \">clicking here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf you are a facebook user, please like this page : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Friends-of-Exploris\/639024612797668\">Friends of Exploris on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ards Borough Council met tonight, Wed 25th, and have decided to postpone the decision on closing Exploris for a further two months. This gives some breathing space to the groups working to save the Northern Ireland Aquarium. If you feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/?p=2709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gala-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portaferrytown.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}