{"id":88698,"date":"2026-05-04T20:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88698"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:06:38","slug":"two-american-flagged-merchant-ships-successfully-transit-through-strait-of-hormuz-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/two-american-flagged-merchant-ships-successfully-transit-through-strait-of-hormuz-us-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Two American-flagged merchant ships &#8216;successfully transit&#8217; through Strait of Hormuz, US says"},"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\/AA22lVLJ.img?w=534&amp;h=301&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two American-flagged merchant ships have successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, according to the US military, following Donald Trump&#8217;s vow to free stranded vessels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/two-american-flagged-merchant-ships-successfully-transit-through-strait-of-hormuz-us-says\/ar-AA22lerc?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f8ef888be5491e9a2b50a1644e7460&amp;ei=251\">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>Two American-flagged merchant ships have successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, according to the US military, following Donald Trump&#8217;s vow to free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88698","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\/03\/Hormuz1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698","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=88698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88699,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88698\/revisions\/88699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}