{"id":84610,"date":"2026-02-07T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84610"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:22:34","slug":"sailors-year-long-hell-as-somali-pirates-hostage-from-executions-to-seeing-his-friend-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/07\/sailors-year-long-hell-as-somali-pirates-hostage-from-executions-to-seeing-his-friend-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor&#8217;s year-long hell as Somali pirates&#8217; hostage &#8211; from &#8216;executions&#8217; to seeing his friend die"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VROuF.img?w=534&amp;h=329&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Pralav spent the next 331 days held hostage, alongside around 25 other crew members, as they were held for ransom and subjected to horrific abuse (stock image of a masked Somali pirate)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pralav Dhyani could feel his heart beating out of his chest as an assault rifle was pressed to his head. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/sailor-s-year-long-hell-as-somali-pirates-hostage-from-executions-to-seeing-his-friend-die\/ar-AA1VS7eH?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6987733571974c80a3f921fef785f89d&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Pralav Dhyani could feel his heart beating out of his chest as an assault rifle was pressed to his head. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pralav-Dhyani.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84612,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84610\/revisions\/84612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}