{"id":877,"date":"2004-12-27T00:10:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T00:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2004-12-27T00:10:38","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T00:10:38","slug":"my_case_for_sno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"My Case for Amateur Snorkeling: Maui Sea Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/video\/2004\/122004\/turtle.jpg\" TITLE=\"Makena Sea Turtle Photos: Maui\"><br \/>\nFloating in about 4m of water off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/maps\/map.adp?searchtype=address&#038;country=US&#038;addtohistory=&#038;searchtab=home&#038;address=&#038;city=makena&#038;state=HI&#038;zipcode=\">Makena<\/a>, Maui, I was startled by the sudden appearance of a sea turtle, swimming out from nearby coral.   He was less than 1 meter in front of me, as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/video\/2004\/122004\/makenaturtle.html\">7MB Quicktime movie<\/a> shows.<br \/>\nI was later told that some people feed them hot dogs, which unfortunately explains his proximity.  I was advised to keep an eye on my fingers.   Screen saver jpeg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/video\/2004\/122004\/turtle1280x1024.jpg\">sea turtle image<\/a> (215K).  The images were captured with a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=144&#038;modelid=10460\">Canon S70<\/a> digital camera and a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=StandardDisplayAct&#038;fcategoryid=144&#038;modelid=10460&#038;keycode=underwater_photo\">WP-DC40<\/a> underwater case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating in about 4m of water off Makena, Maui, I was startled by the sudden appearance of a sea turtle, swimming out from nearby coral. He was less than 1 meter in front of me, as this 7MB Quicktime movie shows. I was later told that some people feed them hot dogs, which unfortunately explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}