{"id":101,"date":"2011-04-12T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:28:32","slug":"whale-jumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/whale-jumping\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Jumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/WhaleJumpingVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/WhaleJumpingVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/WhaleJumpingVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It makes no sense, of course,<br \/>\nthat whales leap out of the water,<br \/>\nthough it could be as the scientists say:<br \/>\nthey do it while courting\u2014<br \/>\nsomething extravagant to impress<br \/>\nthe fluky female\u2014or to make a point<br \/>\nwhich the younger rival is not likely<br \/>\nto forget, or just for the sheer joy<br \/>\nof jumping out of the water when you weigh in<br \/>\nat 72,000 pounds of hot, quivering flesh.<br \/>\nWhat? To go charging up out of the murky, cold,<br \/>\nsagging flood that tugs at every nerve end,<br \/>\nto break through the wind-tipped waves,<br \/>\nand curve into the dazzling air,<br \/>\nbelly turned upward to the sun\u2014<br \/>\none instant\u2014in the sun\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019d do that, too, if I were a whale,<br \/>\nI\u2019d do that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/WhaleJumpingVx3.mp3 &nbsp; It makes no sense, of course, that whales leap out of the water, though it could be as the scientists say: they do it while courting\u2014 something extravagant to impress the fluky female\u2014or to make a point which the younger rival is not likely to forget, or just for the sheer joy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightotherverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}