{"id":976964,"date":"2022-02-04T23:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/watch-octopus-makes-rare-appearance-at-south-carolina-beach\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T23:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T23:50:31","slug":"watch-octopus-makes-rare-appearance-at-south-carolina-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/watch-octopus-makes-rare-appearance-at-south-carolina-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Octopus makes rare appearance at South Carolina beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Octopus-makes-rare-appearance-at-South-Carolina-beach.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSCDNR%2Fvideos%2F638746517440459%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=268&amp;t=0\" width=\"268\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 4 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Wildlife officials in South Carolina shared video of an octopus that made a rare visit to the state&#8217;s shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said in a Facebook post that Heather Leon was walking along the water with her mother in North Myrtle Beach when they spotted an octopus in the shallow water.\n<\/p>\n<p>Leon captured video of the common Atlantic octopus resting in the water before swimming off to deeper waters.<\/p>\n<p>The department the species is &#8220;native to our waters, but rarely seen inshore.&#8221; The post posited the octopus &#8220;may have been warming itself in the sunny pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leon said it was a powerful sight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was truly a once-in-a lifetime experience, and I&#8217;m so grateful,&#8221; she told the department.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 4 (UPI) &#8212; Wildlife officials in South Carolina shared video of an octopus that made a rare visit to the state&#8217;s shoreline. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said in a Facebook post that Heather Leon was walking along the water with her mother in North Myrtle Beach when they spotted an octopus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}