{"id":2926,"date":"2011-06-11T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2017-06-08T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:12:11","slug":"big-ol-stingin-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/06\/11\/big-ol-stingin-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Big &#8216;ol Stingin&#8217; Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The troops rallied dramatically today, and I was eating toast, drinking juice, and keeping it down like a champ at breakfast time.  The day&#8217;s big activity was a double-dose of snorkeling at the far end of the island featuring a good number of fish whose names I do not know.  A few photos were attempted, but underwater photography is a mystery best summed up as &#8220;chase the fish and hope it stays in the frame&#8221;, so the examples below are all that are forthcoming from that endeavor.  Tomorrow we decided to book a second trip to see the whale sharks, so barring bad luck another video of me swimming frantically behind a giant fish (&#8220;chase the fish and hope it stays in the frame&#8221;) may be the main subject matter of tomorrow&#8217;s journal entry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2011-06-A\/0012_isla_mujeres_audrey_underwater.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Audrey Underwater\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Audrey modeling her wicked awesome swim shirt.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2011-06-A\/0053_isla_mujeres_stingray.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Stingray\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The very rare kitten-faced stingray.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The troops rallied dramatically today, and I was eating toast, drinking juice, and keeping it down like a champ at breakfast time. The day&#8217;s big activity was a double-dose of snorkeling at the far end of the island featuring a good number of fish whose names I do not know. A few photos were attempted, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/06\/11\/big-ol-stingin-rays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big &#8216;ol Stingin&#8217; Rays&#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":[15,30],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-mexico","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","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=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}