{"id":458,"date":"2004-11-03T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/11\/03\/sea-lion-island-falkland-islands-3\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:02:12","slug":"sea-lion-island-falkland-islands-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/11\/03\/sea-lion-island-falkland-islands-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed up most of the night checking election results, and despite the fact that Kerry led exit polls for total vote, Ohio vote, and Florida vote by two-to-three percent he appears to have lost all three by a similar margin.  I don&#8217;t know much about exit polls, but statistically the result seems a bit sketchy.  The prospect of four more years of Bush doing whatever he wants without consequence (since he doesn&#8217;t need to worry about re-election) is a very scary one.<\/p>\n<p>The day&#8217;s weather matched my mood, with clouds and occasional rain for most of the day.  It&#8217;s a photographer&#8217;s nightmare &#8212; an incredible amount to photograph, but no light to do so.  Still, just walking around is nice, and getting an occasional orca sighting is a thrill.  Tomorrow it&#8217;s off to Saunders Island and, with luck, better weather.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/south_georgia\/highlights\/pages\/2004-11-A\/2515-sea-lion-oystercatcher_RJ.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blue-Eyed Shag\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2004-11-A\/2515-sea-lion-oystercatcher_RJ.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Magellanic Oystercatcher on Sea Lion Island<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed up most of the night checking election results, and despite the fact that Kerry led exit polls for total vote, Ohio vote, and Florida vote by two-to-three percent he appears to have lost all three by a similar margin. I don&#8217;t know much about exit polls, but statistically the result seems a bit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/11\/03\/sea-lion-island-falkland-islands-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands&#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":[4],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}