{"id":536774,"date":"2025-09-25T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536774"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:19:32","slug":"sea-lion-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/sea-lion-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Lion Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"336\">Sea lions are a familiar sight during Endurance Array operations &#8211; and frequent visitors to the buoys. These playful but persistent \u201ccute nemeses\u201d find the platforms irresistible places to lounge.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"474\">While they sometimes complicate recovery work, they\u2019re also a lively reminder of the vibrant marine life that calls these waters home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_536760\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536760\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-536760 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/sealion-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/sealion-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/sealion-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/sealion-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/sealion-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/sealion-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-536760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Jeff Wood (OSU)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea lions are a familiar sight during Endurance Array operations &#8211; and frequent visitors to the buoys. These playful but persistent \u201ccute nemeses\u201d find the platforms irresistible places to lounge. While they sometimes complicate recovery work, they\u2019re also a lively reminder of the vibrant marine life that calls these waters home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331],"tags":[330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536776,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536774\/revisions\/536776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}