{"id":1616,"date":"2003-08-14T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2003-08-15T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/15\/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-in-the-water\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:00:57","slug":"just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/14\/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/08\/graphics\/whalefart.jpg\" title=\"That's a whale of a fart...\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"That's a whale of a fart...\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/08\/graphics\/whalefart-thumb.jpg\" width=\"86\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess blaming it on the dog just isn&#8217;t an option when you&#8217;re in the middle of the Antarctic ocean, huh?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It&#8217;s one of the unfortunate consequences of being a mammal &#8211; flatulence.<\/p>\n<p>  And, more unfortunately for a group of whale researchers, nature took its course right under their noses &#8211; literally.<\/p>\n<p>  The researchers claim this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5478,6947020%255E421,00.html\" title=\"Whale flatulence stuns scientists\">first photograph of a minke whale letting one go<\/a> in the icy waters of Antarctica. It was taken from the bow of a research vessel.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We got away from the bow of the ship very quickly &#8230; it does stink,&#8221; said Nick Gales, a research scientist from the Australian Antarctic Division.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, even <em>I<\/em> can succumb to the occasional giggle at juvenile fart humor every so often.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_08_01_archive.html#200443976\" title=\"Photographic evidence of cetacean flatulence\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, even I can succumb to the occasional giggle at juvenile fart humor every so often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6,514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}