{"id":20996,"date":"2019-09-27T00:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=20996"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:18:13","slug":"fratercula-arctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/fratercula-arctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Fratercula arctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/al_case\/48800842837\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"L\u00e1trabjarg puffin (Iceland)\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48800842837_941a31015c_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" alt=\"L\u00e1trabjarg puffin (Iceland)\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo comes from a day I will not soon forget. That day was a little over three months ago. I woke up in my rented camper van on the westernmost tip of the Sn\u00e6fellsnes Peninsula in western Iceland (by myself with no humans within hundreds of kilometers) and proceeded on a wondrous drive that took me to this spot, known as L\u00e1trabjarg. L\u00e1trabjarg is the westernmost tip of Iceland, and a bird can fly there from Sn\u00e6fellsnes in under half an hour, but, by car, it takes over six hours&#8211;six hours of amazing views and vistas I should add. And no people. Actually, it was more like ten hours as I couldn&#8217;t resist the hot springs and photo ops along the way. <\/p>\n<p><I>Fratercula arctica<\/I> is the scientific name for the Atlantic Puffin. This one is peering across the Denmark Strait at Greenland in the distance. Speaking of scientific names&#8230; A few weeks later I found myself in Uppsala, Sweden immersed in the history of the father of scientific naming, Carl Linnaeus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo comes from a day I will not soon forget. That day was a little over three months ago. I woke up in my rented camper van on the westernmost tip of the Sn\u00e6fellsnes Peninsula in western Iceland (by myself with no humans within hundreds of kilometers) and proceeded on a wondrous drive that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[667],"tags":[18,535,594,882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31261,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20996\/revisions\/31261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}