{"id":55952,"date":"2015-05-19T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=55952"},"modified":"2015-05-19T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:09:15","slug":"underwater-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55952","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIf you&#8217;re already yearning for an ocean vacation, complete with snorkeling, I have just the vicarious voyage for you \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55953\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55953\" class=\"wp-image-55953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/697px-Snorkel-xel-ha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"309\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Angelique800326 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Google Oceans mapping tool is one more way in which Google packs up the imagination and sends it sailing around the globe. You&#8217;ll love Google&#8217;s Street View program for its ability to &#8220;drop&#8221; you into almost any destination from here to the ends of the earth. Now, with Oceans, you can just as easily plunge beneath the surface of wild waters worldwide\u2014for free.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7syWPIZt9B4?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Scuba dive throughout coral reefs that are being studied by scientists in places like Australia&#8217;s Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii&#8217;s Molokini Crater, and the Apo Island marine reserve in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55954\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55954\" class=\"wp-image-55954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/800px-Coral_reef_at_palmyra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service &#8211; Pacific Region via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Talk about a tropical getaway!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve published images in seven continents, down the Amazon and in the Arctic,&#8221; Jennifer Austin Foulkes, the Manager of Google\u2019s Oceans Program, said in a press release. &#8220;We want to make these special underwater locations as accessible to people as the roads and landmarks they explore in Google Maps every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ready to go? Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<p>Simply visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/views\/streetview\/oceans?gl=us\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Google Oceans website<\/span><\/a>, choose an image or map location that intrigues you, and click to dive in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re already yearning for an ocean vacation, complete with snorkeling, I have just the vicarious voyage for you \u2026 The\u00a0Google Oceans mapping tool is one more way in which Google packs up the imagination and sends it sailing around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-gallant_manners","category-get_out","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}