{"id":76428,"date":"2018-02-28T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/cracking-the-mysteries-of-the-elusive-majestic-whale-shark"},"modified":"2018-02-28T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T03:43:22","slug":"cracking-the-mysteries-of-the-elusive-majestic-whale-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/cracking-the-mysteries-of-the-elusive-majestic-whale-shark","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the mysteries of the elusive, majestic whale shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6nXFn7A2KN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s the biggest shark \u2014 and the biggest fish \u2014 in the sea, often found roaming in warm waters around the globe with its huge mouth agape in search of dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite its hulking appearance, the whale shark has only tiny, almost useless teeth and is sometimes so docile that entire boatloads of people can swim alongside the enigmatic, spotted beast. It\u2019s also one of the least understood animals in the oceans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/0ca880ec85494a87a0f57b7a3a0dbf46\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/0ca880ec85494a87a0f57b7a3a0dbf46<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s the biggest shark \u2014 and the biggest fish \u2014 in the sea, often found roaming in warm waters around the globe with its huge mouth agape in search of dinner. Yet despite its hulking appearance, the whale shark has only tiny, almost useless teeth and is sometimes so docile [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}