{"id":38096,"date":"2012-11-16T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38096"},"modified":"2012-11-16T08:29:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:29:36","slug":"whale-fossil-at-jack-oneills-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38096","title":{"rendered":"Whale Fossil At Jack O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/oneillbones2-jpg.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/oneillbones2-jpg.jpg','popup','width=620,height=418,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/oneillbones2-jpg-tm.jpg\" height=\"289\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Oneillbones2-Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oniell.com\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong> founder <strong>Jack O&#8217;Neill<\/strong> had a herd of media people rolling through his front yard yesterday after someone noticed what looks like a whale fossil in his front yard at Pleasure Point, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news\/central-california\/santa-cruz\/Gnarly-big-skeleton-found-outside-Jack-O-Neill-s-house\/-\/5738976\/17434512\/-\/42iyvu\/-\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">KSBW<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday, O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s house became even gnarlier when a lower-than-usual low tide revealed a gigantic skeleton just outside his back door and seawall. . . The bones were vertebrae that had been fossilized. . . As word of the skeleton spread on social media websites, several hypotheses and theories arose. . . Many hoped it was a dinosaur. . . Gary Griggs, director of University of California Santa Cruz&#8217;s Institute of Marine Sciences, said the skeleton was most likely an extinct Pliocene-era whale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would appear that wise water creatures have loved Pleasure Point for eons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news\/central-california\/santa-cruz\/Gnarly-big-skeleton-found-outside-Jack-O-Neill-s-house\/-\/5738976\/17434512\/-\/42iyvu\/-\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">KSBW<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Neill founder Jack O&#8217;Neill had a herd of media people rolling through his front yard yesterday after someone noticed what looks like a whale fossil in his front yard at Pleasure Point, according to a story on KSBW. On Thursday, O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s house became even gnarlier when a lower-than-usual low tide revealed a gigantic skeleton just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38100,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38096\/revisions\/38100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}