{"id":508,"date":"2016-03-20T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2016-03-20T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T17:11:20","slug":"our-first-manatee-close-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Our first manatee close encounter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/manatee-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-509 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/manatee-sign-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"manatee sign\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/manatee-sign-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/manatee-sign-708x1024.jpg 708w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/manatee-sign.jpg 1457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>As if to say &#8220;good-bye&#8221; to us, we saw our first manatee in the marina today, the day before we plan to leave Cocoa, Florida. \u00a0(No photos unfortunately)<\/p>\n<p>We have seen manatees from a distance as we transited the ICW but this is the first time we were stationary and had one swimming next to our boat. \u00a0They do move SLOWLY! \u00a0And are really quite cute.<\/p>\n<p>Per the marina staff, if we were to stay through Spring we would see many more mating in the marina. \u00a0We will be missing that show as we begin to head North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if to say &#8220;good-bye&#8221; to us, we saw our first manatee in the marina today, the day before we plan to leave Cocoa, Florida. \u00a0(No photos unfortunately) We have seen manatees from a distance as we transited the ICW but this is the first time we were stationary and had one swimming next to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our first manatee close encounter&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}