{"id":28,"date":"2008-08-13T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-08-13T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:29:00","slug":"guinevereous-liraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Guinevereous Liraki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SVa6GgcCaiI\/AAAAAAAABDM\/L8JKTONne_Q\/s1600-h\/sc0017679009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SVa6GgcCaiI\/AAAAAAAABDM\/L8JKTONne_Q\/s320\/sc0017679009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284615833715370530\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfrVOyyWgI\/AAAAAAAAAzs\/YLGJCo6CMzo\/s1600-h\/porpoise.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKNgp8SZYpI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/oOXx35VrlZg\/s1600-h\/porpoise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKNgp8SZYpI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/oOXx35VrlZg\/s320\/porpoise.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234133465608839826\" \/><\/a>The British Museum of Natural History gave each yacht entered in the 1968 trans-atlantic race a log book asking each crew to record sightings of mammals including where,when, and under what conditions the sightings occurred. There were many sightings, I had forgotten until now, I described the porpoise in the photo, Geroge Moffett, the owner of the boat turned the log in at the end of the race. About a year later he wrote to me that the porpoise had been identified as a unique species within the family of Phocoenidae and that the Museum had attributed it the name &#8220;Guinevereous Liraki&#8221; <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I have no substantiation of the story as I have long ago lost the letter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Museum of Natural History gave each yacht entered in the 1968 trans-atlantic race a log book asking each crew to record sightings of mammals including where,when, and under what conditions the sightings occurred. There were many sightings, I had forgotten until now, I described the porpoise in the photo, Geroge Moffett, the owner &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=28\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guinevereous Liraki<\/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":[81,54,52,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-museum-of-natural-history","category-george-moffett","category-guinevere","category-porpoise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}