{"id":2284,"date":"2016-07-04T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2016-07-04T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T08:18:16","slug":"whale-dreamers-festival-2016-the-dream-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"Whale Dreamers Festival 2016 &#8211; The Dream Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted!\u201d<\/em> &#8211; Plutarch<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The early morning is cold, crisp but beautifully clear. The tiniest sliver of a present moon hangs in the eastern sky just above the deep orange of the coming dawn. I marvel at this glorious day thankful to be travelling to a beautiful place to spend time with wonderful people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m greeted at the entrance to the Lighthouse by a pod of Humpbacks playing in the bay below \u2026its going to be a fantastic day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?attachment_id=2287\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2287 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/WSB-0976.jpg\" alt=\"WSB-0976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/WSB-0976.jpg 800w, https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/WSB-0976-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/WSB-0976-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/WSB-0976-601x400.jpg 601w, https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/WSB-0976-418x278.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019d like to report that the day was full of great talks, music, stalls, information displays, Lighthouse tours, food, family fun, beautiful sculptures and amazing whale sightings all spend on a glorious winters day but I was just to busy to experience any of that\u2026 instead I had a wonderful day talking everything whale with all of the people who came by the WS Stall. I particularly love the look on children\u2019s faces when you share all the crazy facts about these incredible animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All in all another fantastic day, may Whale Dreamers continue forever! \u00a0&#8230;ok time to pass out \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted!\u201d &#8211; Plutarch The early morning is cold, crisp but beautifully clear. The tiniest sliver of a present moon hangs in the eastern sky just above the deep orange of the coming dawn. I marvel at this glorious day thankful to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-whale-festivals","category-whale-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}