{"id":7622,"date":"2016-07-08T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T06:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2016-07-21T23:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:25:46","slug":"humpback-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/08\/humpback-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/wildlife\/jogger-stopped-tracks-humpback-whale-nearly-storms-beach\/#ujbyUUxb3yzcyCr6.97\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from grindtv<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Jogger stopped in tracks as humpback whale nearly storms beach<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by Pete Thomas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/author\/pete-thomas\/?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Pete Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fGNTOr_nzLM\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A woman jogging on the beach in Pacifica, Calif., was astonished to see a humpback whale swimming straight toward her through the surf, seemingly intent on beaching itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoa, stay back, buddy!,\u201d Roberta Gamble said to the whale, while videotaping the rare encounter on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Humpback whales were feeding beyond the surf zone, but this whale had chased a school of anchovies almost onto the shore. It opens wide to gulp the bait fish, directly in front of Gamble, about 5 seconds into the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh dear,\u201d she says in the short clip, which on Thursday began circulating on whale-themed Facebook pages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough humpbacks have at times been observed lunge-feeding just outside the surf zone, it is extraordinarily rare to catch one with its belly actually on the sand,\u201d whale researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger posted on the public group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/CetalFauna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cetal Fauna<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve witnessed humpbacks feeding close to shore here, but always just outside the surf \u2013 never this close!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/wildlife\/jogger-stopped-tracks-humpback-whale-nearly-storms-beach\/#ujbyUUxb3yzcyCr6.97\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at grindtv.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from grindtv Jogger stopped in tracks as humpback whale nearly storms beach By\u00a0Pete Thomas A woman jogging on the beach in Pacifica, Calif., was astonished to see a humpback whale swimming straight toward her through the surf, seemingly intent on beaching itself. \u201cWhoa, stay back, buddy!,\u201d Roberta Gamble said to the whale, while videotaping the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}