{"id":2578,"date":"2018-12-05T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2019-01-11T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:25:51","slug":"playing-with-a-47-year-old-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/05\/playing-with-a-47-year-old-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with a 47 Year Old Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Dolphin swim, I had a very special experience with one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The dolphins will swim around you, playing, and will play with blades of sea grass, taking them in their mouths, then spitting them out for you, in a game of catch.\u00a0 \u00a0It feels a little like being a child and having an adult humor you as you play some silly game.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There was one dolphin that normally does not play much.\u00a0 \u00a0I think they said she was 47 years old, but I could have that wrong.\u00a0 \u00a0 The trainer said she is protective of her young, and will only occasionally play catch once at most.<\/p>\n<p>I think this little lady liked me.<\/p>\n<p>She came up to play with me, played catch a few times and wanted more.\u00a0 \u00a0I took the blade of grass down to the bottom and played there for a while.\u00a0 \u00a0When she finally left the trainer came up to me very excited as he had never seen her do that.\u00a0 \u00a0Who says I can&#8217;t attract the young ladies?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2578-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/TRAVEL\/2018-11-Roatan\/n-CpMXsw\/Dolphin-Swim-Video\/i-BSSQfRz\/0\/42534e78\/640\/Video-640.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/TRAVEL\/2018-11-Roatan\/n-CpMXsw\/Dolphin-Swim-Video\/i-BSSQfRz\/0\/42534e78\/640\/Video-640.mp4\">https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/TRAVEL\/2018-11-Roatan\/n-CpMXsw\/Dolphin-Swim-Video\/i-BSSQfRz\/0\/42534e78\/640\/Video-640.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions\">[jetpack_subscription_form show_subscribers_total=&#8221;false&#8221; show_only_email_and_button=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Dolphin swim, I had a very special experience with one of them. The dolphins will swim around you, playing, and will play with blades of sea grass, taking them in their mouths, then spitting them out for you, in a game of catch.\u00a0 \u00a0It feels a little like being a child and having &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/05\/playing-with-a-47-year-old-beauty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing with a 47 Year Old Beauty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}