{"id":23513,"date":"2014-11-13T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=23513"},"modified":"2014-11-13T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:33:09","slug":"addendum-to-day-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=23513","title":{"rendered":"Addendum to Day 310&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious as to why the Whale Sharks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=23419\" target=\"_blank\">Day 310<\/a> were so far out of the tropics, so I emailed the Shark Research Institute, where Dailylife Daughter #2 had found the photo that looked like whale sharks&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<pre>Hi Curtis,\r\n\r\nOur webmaster forward your request to us. The images posted on\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=23419\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=23419<\/a> are of an ocean sunfish, *Mola\r\nmola.*\r\n\r\nSee: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_sunfish\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_sunfish<\/a>\r\n\r\nThey DO look like floating heads. We've seen them in the tropics and\r\noccasionally here off New Jersey. Can't eat them tho; their flesh is\r\nriddled with parasites.\r\n\r\nBest regards,\r\nMarie Levine\r\nShark Research Institute<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sure enough, I looked and one of the photos could\u00c2\u00a0taken by me on the Amsterdam. \u00c2\u00a0So they are NOT whale sharks but are a kind of Sunfish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty ugly looking, either\u00c2\u00a0way!<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious as to why the Whale Sharks from Day 310 were so far out of the tropics, so I emailed the Shark Research Institute, where Dailylife Daughter #2 had found the photo that looked like whale sharks&#8230; Hi Curtis, Our webmaster forward your request to us. The images posted on http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=23419 are of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5,43,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-cruise-2014","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2014","category-photography","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23514,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions\/23514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}