{"id":260837,"date":"2026-04-10T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:50:08","slug":"stunning-drone-footage-shows-massive-humpback-whale-breaching-off-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260837\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Drone Footage Shows Massive Humpback Whale Breaching Off California Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A drone operator captured footage of a humpback whale repeatedly breaching off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage was captured by Mauricio Tassara of @empty_drone, who said that \u201cit was incredible to capture a whale of that size\u2014potentially reaching 80 feet\u2014so close to shore.\u201d Credit: Mauricio Tassara\/@empty_drone via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone operator captured footage of a humpback whale repeatedly breaching off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,114801,19773,114800,29378],"class_list":["post-260837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-drone-operator","tag-humpback-whale","tag-mauricio-tassara","tag-rancho-palos-verdes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}