{"id":4084,"date":"2011-10-23T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2011-10-23T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T13:44:25","slug":"swimming-with-sharks-for-a-wine-book-seafood-and-wine-pairing-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/swimming-with-sharks-for-a-wine-book-seafood-and-wine-pairing-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming with Sharks for a Wine Book: Seafood and Wine Pairing Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTbiZir7x3Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After we stopping debating which wine pairs best with a rare shark steak (and the ethics of using a wine writer as bait), we jumped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>No, I didn&#8217;t stay on the boat, but avoiding getting eaten, taking pictures and thinking about wine pairings was too much to do all at the same time. Yes, I&#8217;m the one looking like a drowned rat. And yes, I&#8217;m insane.<\/p>\n<p>The experience though is one I&#8217;ll never forget&#8230; the black marble eye of one of those 20-foot sharks side-on, each of us wondering who&#8217;d be dinner. Take a look at the slow-motion capture near the end of the video to see just how large this sucker is.<\/p>\n<p>The shark-diving is in chapter four of my new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/book\"><strong>Unquenchable<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ever been to sea Billy? Arrrrrgh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we stopping debating which wine pairs best with a rare shark steak (and the ethics of using a wine writer as bait), we jumped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South Africa. No, I didn&#8217;t stay on the boat, but avoiding getting eaten, taking pictures and thinking about wine pairings was too much to do all at the same time. Yes, I&#8217;m the one looking like a drowned rat. And yes, I&#8217;m insane. The experience though is one I&#8217;ll never forget&#8230; the black marble eye of one of those 20-foot sharks side-on, each of us wondering who&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-unquenchable"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}