{"id":15140,"date":"2014-03-23T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15140"},"modified":"2014-03-23T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:56:02","slug":"orcas-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/orcas-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Orca&#8217;s in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the black and white<\/p>\n<p>patterning<\/p>\n<p>gives you the low down<\/p>\n<p>on what is below you<\/p>\n<p>and why it is there<\/p>\n<p>in a rich soup of plankton<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">it cuts through the water<\/span><\/p>\n<p>surfacing calmly<\/p>\n<p>its blow hole<\/p>\n<p>will share<\/p>\n<p>a great plume of \u00a0air<\/p>\n<p>mixed with water and rainbows<\/p>\n<p>the sun &#8216;s prism painting<\/p>\n<p>this picture for all<\/p>\n<p>to see<\/p>\n<p>as their bodies come up through the<\/p>\n<p>surface<\/p>\n<p>the Orca&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>their pod<\/p>\n<p>just answer the call<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>below those great belts<\/p>\n<p>of seed weed adoringly<\/p>\n<p>dance to the ballet<\/p>\n<p>that plays in the ear<\/p>\n<p>olive and gold strands<\/p>\n<p>waving so gently<\/p>\n<p>a maiden perhaps<\/p>\n<p>seems to appear<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Straits<\/p>\n<p>close to Vancouver Island<\/p>\n<p>a great sheet of mirror<\/p>\n<p>reflecting the sky<\/p>\n<p>and down in the water<\/p>\n<p>an octopus slithers<\/p>\n<p>writhing its tentacles<\/p>\n<p>its seems to fly<\/p>\n<p>over rocks through<\/p>\n<p>the kelp that hangs<\/p>\n<p>in the current<\/p>\n<p>various fishes<\/p>\n<p>great gaping eyes<\/p>\n<p>all sorts of colours<\/p>\n<p>burst with the sunlight<\/p>\n<p>the orca&#8217;s some of them<\/p>\n<p>a very great size<\/p>\n<p>they push through the water<\/p>\n<p>a knife of a fin<\/p>\n<p>just like ballet dancers<\/p>\n<p>onto a spin<\/p>\n<p>so gentle so beautiful<\/p>\n<p>this place is there&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>wild and creative<\/p>\n<p>who wins s who dares<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the black and white patterning gives you the low down on what is below you and why it is there in a rich soup of plankton it cuts through the water surfacing calmly its blow hole will share a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/orcas-in-the-wild\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15142,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions\/15142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}