{"id":131,"date":"2011-03-18T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-03-30T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:49:06","slug":"a-manatee-on-the-silver-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/2011\/03\/a-manatee-on-the-silver-river\/","title":{"rendered":"A MANATEE ON THE SILVER RIVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spotted a manatee on two consecutive tours of the Silver River.\u00a0 It is a fairly large adult manatee.\u00a0 On both occassions we have seen it about one mile east of the basin of Silver Springs.\u00a0 It is easy to spot looking down in the water due to it&#8217;s light coloring and large\u00a0size.<\/p>\n<p>In the 28 years I have been on the Silver and Ocklawaha Rivers, this is only the second manatee I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 It probably traveled the\u00a0Harris\u00a0Chain of Lakes through the lock at Moss Bluff.\u00a0 However the\u00a0 manatees&#8217; journey ends, we&#8217;ve enjoyed the pleasure of seeing it on the River.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_0530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132\" title=\"100_0530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_0530-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_0530-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_0530-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manatee spotted on Silver River tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_0530.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spotted a manatee on two consecutive tours of the Silver River.\u00a0 It is a fairly large adult manatee.\u00a0 On both occassions we have seen it about one mile east of the basin of Silver Springs.\u00a0 It is easy to spot looking down in the water due to it&#8217;s light coloring and large\u00a0size. In the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/2011\/03\/a-manatee-on-the-silver-river\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A MANATEE ON THE SILVER RIVER!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slickcharters.net\/River-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}