{"id":3424,"date":"2024-08-01T22:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2024-08-08T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:14:59","slug":"exotic-hitchhiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/exotic-hitchhiker\/","title":{"rendered":"EXOTIC HITCHHIKER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/brown-booby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/brown-booby.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/brown-booby.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/brown-booby-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/brown-booby-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the first of two sea days on our way towards our final port, Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, the ship acquired a hitchhiker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brown Booby above landed on the deck below our balcony in some quite rough weather, and seemed to be a little worst for wear. More curious, however, is how it came to be where it is, since the booby is an equatorial bird that generally doesn&#8217;t come this far North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoiler alert: after two days, it finally flew off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the first of two sea days on our way towards our final port, Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, the ship acquired a hitchhiker. The Brown Booby above landed on the deck below our balcony in some quite rough weather, and seemed to be a little worst for wear. More curious, however, is how it came to be where it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,13,4,38,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424"}],"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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}