{"id":259873,"date":"2010-02-01T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:36:51","slug":"pirate-couple-begs-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259873","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Couple Begs for Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey are not treating us well\u2026.we don\u2019t have much time left.\u201d Those are the words of Rachel Chandler.\u00a0 She and her husband have now been held by pirates in Somalia for over three months since their yacht was seized in October.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive video obtained by sister network Sky News the two are heard begging for help.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI want to just say please to my government, get me and my wife out of here,\u201d Paul Chandler said.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3996885&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">FoxNews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>A doctor who examined the couple found them not well. Rachel especially said to be physically and mentally ailing.\u00a0 The two are being held separately by the pirates but were allowed to be together in recent days on the advice of the doctor according to Sky.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the UK Foreign office claims it is doing \u201c\u2026everything we can to secure their release\u201d but is refusing to pay any ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Davis of the Merchant Maritime Warfare Centre tells Fox News that the government is \u201cnot talking to the pirates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claims that he spoke with the pirates and could\u2019ve gotten the couple released for $200,000 last Fall.\u00a0\u00a0 The latest ransom demand is reportedly $2 million.\u00a0 The problem, as Davis noted, is the couple does not have a large shipping or insurance company behind them.\u00a0 \u201cThe (pirates) want someone to organize a release,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey are not treating us well\u2026.we don\u2019t have much time left.\u201d Those are the words of Rachel Chandler.\u00a0 She and her husband have now been held by pirates in Somalia for over three months since their yacht was seized in October. In an exclusive video obtained by sister network Sky News the two are heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}