{"id":1248,"date":"2017-04-05T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2017-04-05T08:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:08:18","slug":"wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-april-5-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/2017\/04\/05\/wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-april-5-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia article of the day for April 5, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for April 5, 2017 is <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2o0xykY\">Shackleton\u2013Rowett Expedition<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Shackleton\u2013Rowett Expedition (1921\u201322) was Sir Ernest Shackleton&#8217;s last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The venture, with vaguely defined geographic and scientific objectives, was financed by John Quiller Rowett, and is otherwise known as the Quest Expedition after its ship Quest, a converted Norwegian sealer. Shackleton had originally intended to go to the Arctic and  explore the Beaufort Sea, but abandoned this plan  when the Canadian government withheld financial support.  Shortly after Quest&#8217;s arrival at  South Georgia, Shackleton died of a heart attack, aged 47. The  expedition continued  under the leadership of   Frank Wild, with a three-month cruise to the eastern Antarctic, but the shortcomings of Quest as a polar vessel kept it from proceeding further than longitude 20\u00b0E, or from penetrating southward through the pack ice. After returning to   South Georgia,  Wild hoped for a second, more productive season in the ice, and took the ship to Cape Town for a refit, where he found  a message from  Rowett   ordering them home. The expedition ended quietly, with  limited achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for April 5, 2017 is Shackleton\u2013Rowett Expedition. The Shackleton\u2013Rowett Expedition (1921\u201322) was Sir Ernest Shackleton&#8217;s last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The venture, with vaguely defined geographic and scientific objectives, was financed by John Quiller Rowett, and is otherwise known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[19,337,18],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia","tag-article-of-the-day","tag-shackleton-rowett-expedition","tag-wikipedia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}