{"id":672,"date":"2005-08-24T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T02:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:49:04","slug":"usvi-rays-of-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"USVI: Rays of St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveying corals and reef fish in Caneel Bay off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, we encountered a large number of rays cruising the bottom among the conchs in the low turtle grass.\u00c2\u00a0 They are so graceful as they fly through the water and a delight to study up-close &amp; personal.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q7_r9xNcFzw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q7_r9xNcFzw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Rays Swimming off Caneel Bay, St. John, USVI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveying corals and reef fish in Caneel Bay off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, we encountered a large number of rays cruising the bottom among the conchs in the low turtle grass.\u00c2\u00a0 They are so graceful as they fly through the water and a delight to study up-close &amp; personal. Rays Swimming off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}