{"id":5953,"date":"2008-02-27T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T01:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/pregnant-or-just-plain-fat\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:48:11","slug":"pregnant-or-just-plain-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/pregnant-or-just-plain-fat.html","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant or Just Plain Fat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks to me like a very pregnant <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_richardsi\">Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/a><\/em>). Its pupping season right now and I&#8217;m guessing that she (if she is indeed a she) is about to pop the pup. If in fact it&#8217;s really a he, then he&#8217;s a porker.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific harbor seal.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20444\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/pacific-harbor-seal-la-jolla-photo-20444-647689.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific harbor seal.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20444\">20444<\/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>Asking someone if she is pregnant is never a good move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks to me like a very pregnant harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi). Its pupping season right now and I&#8217;m guessing that she (if she is indeed a she) is about to pop the pup. If in fact it&#8217;s really a he, then he&#8217;s a porker. Pacific harbor seal. Image&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,169,134],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5953","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\/5953","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=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}