{"id":2312,"date":"2013-05-11T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2023-12-18T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:17:40","slug":"sea-lions-my-48-north-article-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/sea-lions-my-48-north-article-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Lions &#8211; My 48-North article for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-Sea-Lions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-Sea-Lions-460x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2313\" title=\"2013-Sea-Lions\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Geez: I turned in my monthly offering for June and realized I hadn&#8217;t posted my story for May.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The page should enlarge for easier reading if you click on it. This story is about one of the other big&nbsp;carnivore-predators&nbsp;around the Pacific Northwest (besides us) &#8211; and how these big guys keep getting in the way. It&#8217;s the good, the bad and some ugly all rolled into 225 words. The photo below was the inspiration and reference I used for the initial illustration. This is the &#8220;Big Red Can&#8221; that&#8217;s just offshore at Port Townsend&#8217;s Point Hudson harbor entrance. I&#8217;ve seen more sea lions on this thing than I can count. I was sailing out there a couple of days ago and a very large male was &#8216;laying out&#8217; on the top, just like my little watercolor shows. As I sailed past, he didn&#8217;t even wake up. I could almost hear him snoring &#8211; 1000 lbs of snoring. Check out the entire magazine online at:&nbsp;<a title=\"48 North\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.turn-page.com\/i\/123914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">48 North, I&#8217;m on page 33.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Red-can.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Red-can-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2314\" title=\"Red-can\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thanks for reading this week.<br>Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\">Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\">Click <\/a>here to go to our main website &#8211; packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancycherryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy&#8217;s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/virginia.larryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to go to Virginia Eifert&#8217;s website. Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-medium-font-size is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geez: I turned in my monthly offering for June and realized I hadn&#8217;t posted my story for May.&nbsp; The page should enlarge for easier reading if you click on it. This story is about one of the other big&nbsp;carnivore-predators&nbsp;around the Pacific Northwest (besides us) &#8211; and how these big guys keep getting in the way. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/sea-lions-my-48-north-article-for-may\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sea Lions &#8211; My 48-North article for May<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,92,112,125],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-48-north-magazine","tag-port-townsend","tag-stories-and-articles","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2021-7-Stellers-Sea-Lion.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}