{"id":82620,"date":"2026-05-04T06:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82620"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:44:49","slug":"u-s-guiding-ships-through-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-guiding-ships-through-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Guiding Ships Through Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/72a6d75\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F27%2F7a%2F6179a905f5d3baba5a863aa2a90e%2Febb02948af444b19931896aba966b637\" alt=\"Cargo ships are seen at sea near the Strait of Hormuz, as viewed from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo\/Fatima Shbair)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United States said Monday it is ready to \u201cguide\u201d commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in a new effort to end the blockade wreaking havoc on the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-led Joint Maritime Information Center advised ships to cross the strait in Oman\u2019s waters, saying it had set up an \u201cenhanced security area.\u201d The American military has said the initiative might involve guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 aircraft and 15,000 service members but has not specified what kind of assistance or escorts it would provide ships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777877089\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Guiding Ships Through Hormuz\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The United States said Monday it is ready to \u201cguide\u201d commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82621,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82620\/revisions\/82621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}