{"id":373,"date":"2013-09-06T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2013-09-06T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:16:09","slug":"silky-selkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Silky Selkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been tormenting Doc by talking about <a title=\"Selkies\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selkie\" target=\"_blank\">selkies<\/a> every chance I get. You would think he&#8217;d be grateful that I&#8217;ve (almost) stopped going on about <a title=\"Trolls\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troll\" target=\"_blank\">trolls<\/a>, but this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>During a selkie rampage, I drew this:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/9688561946\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5515\/9688561946_a79bb5d08c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I figure, if you have the ability to turn into a seal, a leopard seal would be the way to go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But then! I got invited to hang out with Gail and say good-bye to her before she leaves for Antarctica for 18 months. She told me that she will get to see penguins and leopard seals and go ice climbing&#8230; I told her, &#8220;hold that thought!&#8221; and then gave her this drawing as a going-away gift. To her, it is a leopard seal. To me, it is a selkie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been tormenting Doc by talking about selkies every chance I get. You would think he&#8217;d be grateful that I&#8217;ve (almost) stopped going on about trolls, but this is not the case. During a selkie rampage, I drew this: But then! I got invited to hang out with Gail and say good-bye to her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silky Selkies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,19,89],"tags":[216,217,219,218,213,214,215],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-doodles","category-personal","category-silly","tag-antarctica","tag-leopard-seal","tag-marine-biology","tag-research","tag-selkie","tag-silkie","tag-silky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}