{"id":35502,"date":"2025-07-30T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:24:06","slug":"playful-seal-made-me-feel-like-a-paddleboard-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35502\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Playful seal made me feel like a paddleboard princess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A paddleboarder &#8220;felt like a Disney princess&#8221; when a seal started playing with her off the North Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Natalia Kochalska, 21, was paddling with her mother off Flamborough, East Yorkshire, on Saturday when the curious creature approached her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It was really interested in the paddle and it looked like it just wanted to play,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Kochalska, who took up paddleboarding last year, said it was her first such close  encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It was just a really cute experience,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It kind of looked like it was already used to people, so maybe it happened before, but for us it was so exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Reporting by Stuart Harratt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A paddleboarder &#8220;felt like a Disney princess&#8221; when a seal started playing with her off the North Sea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-35502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}