{"id":186598,"date":"2010-01-15T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"1694 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-15T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:07:36","slug":"tremble-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/186598","title":{"rendered":"Tremble Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/canada\/british-columbia\">British Columbia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/taxonomy\/term\/577\">Canada<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/natural-wonders\/watery-wonders\">Watery Wonders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strong currents surge through the narrow entrance to Seymour Inlet. <\/p>\n<p>In the middle stands the small Tremble Island (also called Turret Rock), so called because it&#8217;s said to shake at peak tides when the current races past at an overpowering 16-20 knots. <\/p>\n<p>One story tells how an early land surveyor chose to stay on Tremble Island during a strong tide but the island vibrated so violently that he lay face down, clinging to the roots of small bushes, stuffing grass into his ears to block out the noise. <\/p>\n<p>The islands trees are covered in numerous signs, left by crews of ships that are trying to get in and out and had to wait for the tides. Some of the signs date back over 100 years. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/1998_626_Tremble_Island.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbia, Canada | Watery Wonders Strong currents surge through the narrow entrance to Seymour Inlet. In the middle stands the small Tremble Island (also called Turret Rock), so called because it&#8217;s said to shake at peak tides when the current races past at an overpowering 16-20 knots. One story tells how an early land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}