{"id":2180,"date":"2013-05-18T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2013-05-18T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T16:45:52","slug":"learning-at-the-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"Learning at the Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2188\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SandTiger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2188\" alt=\"A sand tiger shark. (Photograph courtesy of Aquarium of the Pacific, and used with permission.)\" src=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SandTiger.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SandTiger.jpg 600w, https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SandTiger-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SandTiger-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sand tiger shark.<br \/>(Photograph courtesy of Aquarium of the Pacific, and used with permission.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beware&#8211;there are sharks in Long Beach.\u00a0 And you&#8217;re almost out of time to pet them.<\/p>\n<p>May 24 and May 31 are the final Fridays of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquariumofpacific.org\/\"> Aquarium of the Pacific<\/a>&#8216;s free &#8220;Shark Lagoon Nights.&#8221; \u00a0 From 6 till 9, each of these evenings, guests can come to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AquariumofthePacific\">Aquarium&#8217;s<\/a> Shark Lagoon, touch bamboo and epaulette sharks and learn more about these ocean predators. You&#8217;ll also get a chance to see the sand tiger sharks and rays in their tanks (though, sorry, we don&#8217;t advise petting these).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shark Lagoon Nights&#8221; are weather-dependent, and can be cancelled if the weather starts getting menacing.\u00a0\u00a0 Free admission applies only to the Aquarium of the Pacific&#8217;s Shark Lagoon area.\u00a0\u00a0 The number for information is (562) 590-3100, ext. 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware&#8211;there are sharks in Long Beach.\u00a0 And you&#8217;re almost out of time to pet them. May 24 and May 31 are the final Fridays of the Aquarium of the Pacific&#8216;s free &#8220;Shark Lagoon Nights.&#8221; \u00a0 From 6 till 9, each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=2180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[378,167,377,172,379],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-the-year","tag-shark-lagoon-nights","tag-aquarium-of-the-pacific","tag-aquarium-of-the-pacific-shark-lagoon","tag-long-beach-aquarium","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}