{"id":9102,"date":"2012-04-20T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images-.jpg"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:52:33","slug":"local-fisherman-who-have-signed-on-to-he","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/23\/eyes-of-the-spill-the-deepwater-horizon-disaster-in-photos\/local-fisherman-who-have-signed-on-to-he\/","title":{"rendered":"Local fisherman who have signed on to he"},"author":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images-.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--300x221.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--620x456.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local fisherman who have signed on to help with the oil clean-up operation from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster, listen to a safety lecture given by BP representatives in the Louisiana town of Venice,  on May 1, 2010.  A giant oil slick threatened economic and environmental devastation as it closed in on Louisiana&#8217;s vulnerable coast, prompting the US government to declare a national disaster. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency and called for urgent help to prevent fragile wetlands and vital fishing communities along the coast from pollution on a massive scale. The wind started to strengthen and blow the 600-square-mile (1,550-square-kilometer) slick directly onto the coast, where a rich variety of wildlife were at risk in the maze of marshes that amounts to 40 percent of the US wetlands.                AFP PHOTO\/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Local fisherman who signed on to help with the oil clean-up operation on May 1, 2010.  <\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":"3743","height":"2758","hwstring_small":"height='94' width='128'","file":"2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images-.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--150x150.jpg","width":"150","height":"150","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--300x221.jpg","width":"300","height":"221","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--300x221.jpg"},"large":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--620x456.jpg","width":"620","height":"456","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--620x456.jpg"},"station-thumb":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--140x2758.jpg","width":"140","height":"2758","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--140x2758.jpg"},"multimedia-thumb":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--300x100.jpg","width":"300","height":"100","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--300x100.jpg"},"thumb-100":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--100x100.jpg","width":"100","height":"100","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--100x100.jpg"},"featured-thumb":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images--60x60.jpg","width":"60","height":"60","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images--60x60.jpg"},"full":{"file":"5AFPGetty-Images-.jpg","width":3743,"height":2758,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/5AFPGetty-Images-.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"MARK RALSTON","camera":"","caption":"Local fisherman who have signed on to help with the oil clean-up operation from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster, listen to a safety lecture given by BP representatives in the Louisiana town of Venice,  on May 1, 2010.  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