{"id":14612,"date":"2016-10-07T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14612"},"modified":"2016-10-07T04:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T08:48:42","slug":"the-navy-may-soon-need-to-recruit-gardeners-to-go-on-dangerous-international-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-navy-may-soon-need-to-recruit-gardeners-to-go-on-dangerous-international-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy May Soon Need To Recruit Gardeners To Go On Dangerous International Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/100716_0846_TheNavyMayS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems Gandalf was onto something when he had a gardener join Frodo on his stealth mission to strike deep into enemy territory. Jennifer Mcdermott wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Navy is looking into growing fresh vegetables onboard submarines hydroponically.<\/li>\n<li>Currently sailors run out of fresh produce a week into multi-month missions and then have to subside on canned and frozen fare.<\/li>\n<li>While space on submarines is at a premium, it is thought that the morale boost of having fresh food might be worth the space cost of having a farm.<\/li>\n<li>The vegetables would be planted several months before the mission, so the crewmembers would simply have to harvest the food while they were onboard.<\/li>\n<li>With over a hundred crew members, the farm probably wouldn&#8217;t be able to produce enough fresh produce for hand-picked vegetables to make an appearance at every single meal. Instead it&#8217;ll likely be the odd treat to keep spirits up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/07\/05\/fresh-salad-sea-military-considers-gardens-subs.html\">Military<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Gandalf was onto something when he had a gardener join Frodo on his stealth mission to strike deep into enemy territory. Jennifer Mcdermott wrote: The Navy is looking into growing fresh vegetables onboard submarines hydroponically. Currently sailors run out of fresh produce a week into multi-month missions and then have to subside on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/100716_0846_TheNavyMayS1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14616,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions\/14616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}