{"id":11759,"date":"2012-06-21T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2012-06-22T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T07:17:39","slug":"the-appropriate-nautical-responses-to-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/the-appropriate-nautical-responses-to-ahoy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appropriate Nautical Responses to &#8220;Ahoy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ahoy-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11760\" title=\"ahoy facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ahoy-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ahoy-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ahoy-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The standard responses to &#8220;ahoy&#8221;, when used in nautical terms, vary depending on who&#8217;s on the boat being hailed.\u00a0 If you have a commissioned officer aboard, &#8220;aye aye&#8221; is the correct response.\u00a0 If no officer is aboard, &#8220;no no&#8221; is the correct response.\u00a0 If a captain of a different ship is on board, the name of the ship is the proper response.\u00a0 Finally, if an admiral is aboard the vessel, the proper response is &#8220;flag&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ahoy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saying-ahoy-hoy-was-at-one-time-the-preferred-way-to-answer-the-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standard responses to &#8220;ahoy&#8221;, when used in nautical terms, vary depending on who&#8217;s on the boat being hailed.\u00a0 If you have a commissioned officer aboard, &#8220;aye aye&#8221; is the correct response.\u00a0 If no officer is aboard, &#8220;no no&#8221; is the correct response.\u00a0 If a captain of a different ship is on board, the name of the ship is the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}