{"id":1166,"date":"2016-11-30T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:21:58","slug":"at-sea-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/at-sea-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"At Sea (Yet Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been spent at sea on our way towards Phuket, in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>It was our final sea-day, which also meant it was the last of my on-board watercolour classes. Today, we did some Negative Painting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After the class, we sat up on deck reading, with one eye on the ocean for any signs of life. We&#8217;ve got used to not seeing anything; the sea always seems like a great wet desert of nothingness. You know life is out there, but it just ain&#8217;t going to show itself for nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And then it did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An enthusiastic shout went up and folks dashed to the sides of the boat, in time to see a very large bunch of dolphins &#8211; about 48 of them all told, in groups of 4 and 5, bounding in from the starboard side and playing in the bow wave. It was a beautiful moment&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The clocks go forward half an hour tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been spent at sea on our way towards Phuket, in Thailand. It was our final sea-day, which also meant it was the last of my on-board watercolour classes. Today, we did some Negative Painting&#8230; After the class, we sat up on deck reading, with one eye on the ocean for any signs of life. We&#8217;ve got used to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}