{"id":1,"date":"2014-03-20T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-01-13T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:42:36","slug":"whales-in-samana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Whales in Samana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a year, from mid January to mid March, thousands of North Atlantic humpback whales frolic in the waters of Samana Bay as they breed and nurse their newborn calves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_5546377.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_left alignnone wp-image-581 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_5546377-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Whales in Samana\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_5546377-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_5546377-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Whale watching trips in Samana Bay are among the most spectacular in the world. Visitors delight in water acrobatic feasts of mating males, romantic dances of newly weds, and tender play between mothers and babies.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Melville called humpbacks \u201cthe most lighthearted and gamesome of all the whales\u201d, and they surely prove it during their breeding season as they breach, lob, flipper, log, dive, spyhop, roll and surface \u2013 moves you\u2019ll learn about from your boat\u2019s captain and guides.<\/p>\n<p>The waters of Samana Bay are one of the most important humpback whale nurseries in the world, and a saying goes that all North Atlantic humpback whales are really Dominican born!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a year, from mid January to mid March, thousands of North Atlantic humpback whales frolic in the waters of Samana Bay as they breed and nurse their newborn calves. Whale watching trips in Samana Bay are among the most&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/?p=1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novedades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villaserena.com\/vacationrentals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}