{"id":485274,"date":"2026-01-01T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:17:10","slug":"often-brutal-always-beautiful-the-sea-hounds-of-the-frisian-islands-in-pictures-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485274\/","title":{"rendered":"Often brutal, always beautiful: the sea hounds of the Frisian Islands \u2013 in pictures | Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 10 years, the scientist and photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeroen_hoekendijk_photography\/\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeroen Hoekendijk<\/a> has been observing pinnipeds such as seals and walruses on the fragile North Sea archipelago stretching along the Dutch, German and Danish coastline. A remainder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/resource\/doggerland\/\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-drowned Doggerland<\/a>, left behind after the ice age, the low-lying islands are an advance warning sign of the warming and rising seas of the climate crisis<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 10 years, the scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk has been observing pinnipeds such as seals and walruses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":485275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-485274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}