{"id":3437,"date":"2009-11-08T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2010-01-16T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:26:01","slug":"ode-to-a-lazy-harbor-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Lazy Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tourists Gone\u00c2\u00a0And the Living is Easy!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Boats\u00c2\u00a0hauled and tourists have abandoned Outer Cape Cod for parts south and warm.\u00c2\u00a0 Summer bustle’s been replaced by\u00c2\u00a0laughing gulls and snoozing seals.\u00c2\u00a0 Nature’s returned to a slower, more\u00c2\u00a0tempered rhythm.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lazy Harbor Seal<\/p>\n

A juvenile harbor seal has squatted on\u00c2\u00a0the deserted floating dock in the protected shadow of Wellfleet Pier.\u00c2\u00a0 Surrounded by legions of seagulls, the seal rolls off its waterbed into a lunch bowl teeming with bite-sized fish.\u00c2\u00a0 A moment of frenzied munching, an undulating reach to recapture the perfect napping position on the swaying dock, and it’s back to the important business of the day:\u00c2\u00a0storing blubber for the long, hard winter ahead.<\/p>\n

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Ode to a\u00c2\u00a0Lazy Seal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are times in the struggle of life when unemployment soars into the teens and every other road between\u00c2\u00a0Race Point\u00c2\u00a0and Sagamore Bridge is clogged, closed\u00c2\u00a0and detoured that the quiet life of a harbor seal seems an attractive alternative.\u00c2\u00a0 But then winter comes.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourists Gone\u00c2\u00a0And the Living is Easy! Boats\u00c2\u00a0hauled and tourists have abandoned Outer Cape Cod for parts south and warm.\u00c2\u00a0 Summer bustle’s been replaced by\u00c2\u00a0laughing gulls and snoozing seals.\u00c2\u00a0 Nature’s returned to a slower, more\u00c2\u00a0tempered rhythm.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Lazy Harbor Seal A juvenile harbor seal has squatted on\u00c2\u00a0the deserted floating dock in the protected shadow of Wellfleet Pier.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[823],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}