{"id":4600,"date":"2003-11-17T21:30:38","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/4600\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T05:30:38","slug":"ghosts-of-cape-sabine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"ghosts of cape sabine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1880s, the Artic was the great unexplored country.  Some believed that once past the wall of ice explorers would find a hidden continent with temperate weather.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThe Greely Expedition made its way up the coast of what is now Canada, settling in Liberty Bay for a year-long stay&#8230; when they couldn&#8217;t find any food, they waited to be relieved by a resupply ship the following year.  The ship never came, stopped by ice farther down the coast.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nA year later (year two) another ship was sent to resupply them- and it sank.  As the expedition was down  to forty days of rations they decided to make a run south to Cape Sabine&#8230; where seven of their 30+ men were rescued eight months later.  They survived by eating water fleas, their boots and pants, and each other.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nGreely was pretty incompetant.  And personally, I would have just shot a few of these fools for incompetance earlier on, before they ate all my food.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThis book is really long.  If you read it, skim the first third, because not much happens there.  All the bickering, starving and cannibalism happens in the last 100 pages.<\/p>\n<p><i>0399145893<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1880s, the Artic was the great unexplored country. Some believed that once past the wall of ice explorers would find a hidden continent with temperate weather. The Greely Expedition made its way up the coast of what is now Canada, settling in Liberty Bay for a year-long stay&#8230; when they couldn&#8217;t find any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}