{"id":68874,"date":"2012-08-19T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68874"},"modified":"2012-08-19T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:48:46","slug":"boaters-paddlers-enjoy-amazingly-close-humpback-whale-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68874","title":{"rendered":"Boaters, paddlers enjoy amazingly close humpback whale encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill Bouton, a retired biology instructor, was having little success photographing birds along the California coast Saturday, but fortunately a small pod of humpback whales arrived to save the day. Bouton&#8217;s incredible images, captured off San Luis Obispo, show humpback whales lunge-feeding a mere stone&#8217;s throw from shore&#8211;and much closer to boaters, kayakers and paddlers (including a woman in a dress; see first image) who seemingly could not resist getting as close as possible to the powerful leviathans\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/34529\/boaters+paddlers+enjoy+amazingly+close+humpback+whale+encounter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/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>Bill Bouton, a retired biology instructor, was having little success photographing birds along the California coast Saturday, but fortunately a small pod of humpback whales arrived to save the day. Bouton&#8217;s incredible images, captured off San Luis Obispo, show humpback whales lunge-feeding a mere stone&#8217;s throw from shore&#8211;and much closer to boaters, kayakers and paddlers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874","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=68874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68875,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68874\/revisions\/68875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}