{"id":5119,"date":"2014-08-05T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2014-08-05T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:41:39","slug":"surfings-got-this-little-guys-seal-of-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/surfings-got-this-little-guys-seal-of-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing&#8217;s got this Little Guy&#8217;s &#8220;Seal&#8221; of Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two friends,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Matt Stanley and Andrew Flounders, were surfing off Amble, Northumberland, when a young seal joined in for some surfing fun. The seal approached them by nudging their ankles before attempting to climb onto their surfboards. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/surfing-seal-surprises-duo-climbing-3990460\" target=\"_blank\">According to<\/a> a spokesman for a nearby seal sanctuary, the seals often sit on surfboards provided for them by the sanctuary, which is why this little guy may have been so comfortable around the boards. Even though this intrepid surfing seal struggled to stay on, it didn&#8217;t give up on surfing and would surf the white water alongside his new friends.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two friends,\u00a0Matt Stanley and Andrew Flounders, were surfing off Amble, Northumberland, when a young seal joined in for some surfing fun. The seal approached them by nudging their ankles before attempting to climb onto their surfboards. According to a spokesman for a nearby seal sanctuary, the seals often sit on surfboards provided for them by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[48,180,251,278,310,365,388,438,472,504,514,522,647,648,728,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}