{"id":221,"date":"2012-04-01T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:15:48","slug":"leviathan-by-philip-hoare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan by Philip Hoare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy\u00a0Philip Hoare was terrified of the water, only learning to overcome his fears and to swim as an adult. Bewitched by this experience he has become fascinated by the sea and all things in it but especially whales.<\/p>\n<p>In his book Leviathan or, The Whale\u00a0he explores the truths, myths and legends surrounding mans tortuous relationship with whales and how\u00a0Herman Melville came to write\u00a0Moby Dick based on his 1st hand experiences in the whaling industry,<\/p>\n<p>Leviathan or, The Whale\u00a0by\u00a0Philip Hoare<br \/>\nPublished in 2008<br \/>\nPublisher\u00a0Fourth Estate<br \/>\nISBN10 \u00a00007230133<br \/>\nISBN13 \u00a0978-0007230136<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy\u00a0Philip Hoare was terrified of the water, only learning to overcome his fears and to swim as an adult. Bewitched by this experience he has become fascinated by the sea and all things in it but especially whales. In his book Leviathan or, The Whale\u00a0he explores the truths, myths and legends surrounding mans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}