{"id":6722,"date":"2019-07-03T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T23:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/in-pictures-the-largest-creature-on-the-planet-the-blue-whale-makes-an-appearance\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T23:17:39","slug":"in-pictures-the-largest-creature-on-the-planet-the-blue-whale-makes-an-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/news\/in-pictures-the-largest-creature-on-the-planet-the-blue-whale-makes-an-appearance","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: The largest creature on the planet, the blue whale, makes an appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aquarium of the Pacific and Harbor Breeze Cruises, which ferry patrons out to sea to learn about local oceans and the environment, gave the media on Wednesday a chance to see the largest living creatures on the planet: the blue whale.<\/p>\n

The whales, which are endangered, did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

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Researchers study the largest animal on the planet, the endangered blue whale, which has been spotted in the waters off of Long Beach. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marine researchers home base as they study the largest animal on the planet, the endangered blue whale. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A pod of dolphins swims through the water on our way to find the largest animal on the planet. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A dolphin fluke as it dives back in the water as the pod swims by. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An oil rig is seen in the distance as the largest animal on the planet, the endangered blue whale breaks the surface of the water. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A back fin of the largest animal on the planet, the endangered blue whale. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The blowhole of a blue whale which has been spotted. Photo by Thomas Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Aquarium of the Pacific and Harbor Breeze Cruises, which ferry patrons out to sea to learn about local oceans and the environment, gave the media on Wednesday a chance to see the largest living creatures on the planet: the blue whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":70358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2002],"tags":[46,2812,2814,2811,2813],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2771],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aquarium-of-the-pacific","tag-blue-whale","tag-dolphin","tag-harbor-breeze-cruises","tag-whale-watch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}