{"id":8559,"date":"2021-06-18T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2021-06-18T00:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:04:59","slug":"the-eagle-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=8559","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle has Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may think that the eagle ray is one of the uglier cousins of the ray family but I love them as one of my favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that snubby nose and mottled skin make it just a little bit \u2018bulldog crossed with dalmation\u2019, but I think that they give this ray a unique character all its own. <\/p>\n<p>It is however when eagle rays are swimming that their elegant beauty truly stands out. Their long birdlike wings and slender wipe-like tail are mesmerising in flight and take my breath away every time I see them.<\/p>\n<p>I came here to Point Lowley to see the giant cuttlefish but am so glad this eagle has landed here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may think that the eagle ray is one of the uglier cousins of the ray family but I love them as one of my favourites. Yes, that snubby nose and mottled skin make it just a little bit \u2018bulldog crossed with dalmation\u2019, but I think that they give this ray a unique character all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,113,1840,123,2745,2825,112,115,1408,2743,2744,136],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-critters","tag-diving","tag-eagleray","tag-marinelife","tag-pointlowly","tag-rays","tag-scuba","tag-southaustralia","tag-stingray","tag-stonypoint","tag-whyalla","tag-wideangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8561,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions\/8561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}