{"id":4891,"date":"2020-08-22T07:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2020-09-20T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T20:55:19","slug":"seeing-a-string-ray-way-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=4891","title":{"rendered":"Seeing a stingray way up&nbsp;close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morn\u00ading as I was walk\u00ading to Pt. Dubai (seen in the dis\u00adtance in shot three) and was about 35 yards from this boy he was return\u00ading a ray to the ocean. Twen\u00adty min\u00adutes lat\u00ader I was return\u00ading from Dubai and could see the boy work\u00ading away heav\u00adi\u00adly reel\u00ading in anoth\u00ader fish with his bent rod. Yet anoth\u00ader ray, so I stopped to chat with him and his very friend\u00adly dad and took these shots. \u201cCould it have been the same ray?\u201d I asked. The man was very cer\u00adtain it was&nbsp;not.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id=\"gallery-1\" class=\"gallery galleryid-4891 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail\"><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon portrait\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=4892\"><img width=\"176\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean-176x250.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean-176x250.jpg 176w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean-282x400.jpg 282w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean-388x550.jpg 388w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean-768x1088.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean-1084x1536.jpg 1084w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-returning-his-recent-catch-to-the-ocean.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon landscape\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=4894\"><img width=\"250\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray-250x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray-250x160.jpg 250w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray-400x257.jpg 400w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray-550x353.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray-768x492.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray-1536x985.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-The-Stingray.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon portrait\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=4893\"><img width=\"207\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch-207x250.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch-207x250.jpg 207w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch-332x400.jpg 332w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch-456x550.jpg 456w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch-768x926.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch-1274x1536.jpg 1274w, http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-08-22-07-15-Young-fisherman-with-his-dad-with-his-recent-catch.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morn\u00ading as I was walk\u00ading to Pt. Dubai (seen in the dis\u00adtance in shot three) and was about 35 yards from this boy he was return\u00ading a ray to the ocean. Twen\u00adty min\u00adutes lat\u00ader I was return\u00ading from Dubai and could see the boy work\u00ading away heav\u00adi\u00adly reel\u00ading in anoth\u00ader fish with his bent <a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=4891\" class=\"excerpt-more\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}