{"id":37096,"date":"2010-09-12T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37096"},"modified":"2010-09-12T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T15:30:48","slug":"orca-toys-with-kayakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37096","title":{"rendered":"Orca &#8216;Toys&#8217; With Kayakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most of the stories I read about wild orcas interacting with people are interesting, but usually aren&#8217;t verified, and are subject to misinterpretation. So I was a bit skeptical at first as I read the following account of how an orca behaved with two kayakers, but the event seems to have been verified by observers. Make of it what you will (keeping in mind that ascribing motive to an animal may or may not be valid), it does show how very interested the orcas can be in us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This event took place recently just north of Vancouver, Canada off the Sunshine Coast\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/candacewhiting\/archives\/220923.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the stories I read about wild orcas interacting with people are interesting, but usually aren&#8217;t verified, and are subject to misinterpretation. So I was a bit skeptical at first as I read the following account of how an orca behaved with two kayakers, but the event seems to have been verified by observers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37098,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096\/revisions\/37098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}