{"id":284759,"date":"2026-05-26T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:11","slug":"paddleboarder-glides-alongside-curious-baby-manatee-in-florida-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284759\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddleboarder Glides Alongside Curious Baby Manatee in Florida River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A heartwarming wildlife encounter was captured on the Silver River near Ocala, where a paddleboarder was joined by a group of manatees during a calm river journey.Scott Miller filmed the moment while paddling along the river, where three manatees, including a juvenile, swam closely alongside him.The footage shows the baby manatee interacting playfully and curiously with the paddleboard, grazing on underwater vegetation and staying close to the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartwarming wildlife encounter was captured on the Silver River near Ocala, where a paddleboarder was joined by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120904,28,30,29,47874,14521],"class_list":["post-284759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-calm-river-journey","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-scott-miller","tag-silver-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}