{"id":4459,"date":"2011-01-27T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2023-12-20T07:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:46:54","slug":"cute-harbor-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/cute-harbor-seal.html","title":{"rendered":"Cute Harbor Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/harbor_seal_photo.html\">harbor seal<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina\">Phoca vitulina<\/a><\/em>) was quite animated. Most of the harbor seals lie on the sand throughout the day, resting between foraging sessions in the ocean, while younger\/smaller seals seem to exhibit most of the activity. It is nearly February and just about time for newborn harbor seal pups to start appearing among the colony.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=26315\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/pacific-harbor-seal-photograph-26315-322318.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=26315\">26315<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Pacific harbor seal photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pacific_harbor_seal_photo.html\">Pacific harbor seal<\/a>, <a title=\"Phoca vitulina richardsi photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina_richardsi\"><i>Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=26320\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/pacific-harbor-seal-photo-26320-453262.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific harbor seal, an sand at the edge of the sea.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=26320\">26320<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Pacific harbor seal photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pacific_harbor_seal_photo.html\">Pacific harbor seal<\/a>, <a title=\"Phoca vitulina richardsi photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina_richardsi\"><i>Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) was quite animated. Most of the harbor seals lie on the sand throughout the day, resting between foraging sessions in the ocean, while younger\/smaller seals seem to exhibit most of the activity. It is nearly February and just about time for newborn harbor seal pups&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,169,134],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-harbor-seal","9":"category-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11609,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/11609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}