{"id":1003,"date":"2009-03-14T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/03\/14\/the-floating-cube\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T20:25:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:25:46","slug":"the-floating-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/03\/14\/the-floating-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"The Floating Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ted showed up last night, the taxis showed up today, and after a forty-five minute ride through streets filled with all manner of safe, corteous and law-abiding drivers there are now 24 passengers and ten crew members aboard the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nektoncruises.com\/\">Nekton Rorqual<\/a> ready to cavort with whales.  The boat itself is shaped like a box on skis, which apparently makes it ugly and slow but stable.  With nine foot seas forecast tonight stability is a good thing, although a combination of meclazine and pasta will hopefully keep the vomiting to a minimum (in this case &#8220;minimum&#8221; means no vomiting &#8211; I am not a fan of the barf).  We&#8217;re supposed to arrive at the whale grounds at 11AM tomorrow, at which point the boat will anchor and the festivities will begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ted showed up last night, the taxis showed up today, and after a forty-five minute ride through streets filled with all manner of safe, corteous and law-abiding drivers there are now 24 passengers and ten crew members aboard the Nekton Rorqual ready to cavort with whales. The boat itself is shaped like a box &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2009\/03\/14\/the-floating-cube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Floating Cube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-silver-bank-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}