{"id":2588,"date":"2006-10-10T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T08:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2006-10-10T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T08:04:27","slug":"whale_of_a_show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"Whale of a Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/10\/10\/BAGB2LLP6B1.DTL\">Carl Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A pair of humpback whales spent a half hour doing pirouettes last week within 50 yards of a fishing boat as photographers and a video crew recorded the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was cool,&#8221; Ariel Miller, 11, the youngest passenger aboard the Salty Lady, said when the show was over.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a rather frustrating day at the Farallones, not much going on besides the usual riffraff of western gulls and sea lions. A few speedy Dall&#8217;s porpoises finally came along, bow-riding in the late afternoon, just when skipper Roger Thomas turned his boat back toward Sausalito. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Hall: A pair of humpback whales spent a half hour doing pirouettes last week within 50 yards of a fishing boat as photographers and a video crew recorded the scene. &#8220;That was cool,&#8221; Ariel Miller, 11, the youngest passenger aboard the Salty Lady, said when the show was over. It had been a rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}