{"id":681,"date":"2007-08-15T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/giant-kelp-exploring-a-corner-of-the-microcosm\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T07:10:46","slug":"giant-kelp-exploring-a-corner-of-the-microcosm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/15\/giant-kelp-exploring-a-corner-of-the-microcosm\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Kelp: exploring a corner of the microcosm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SUS07.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/SUS07.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nA tiny sea urchin rests between closed fingers.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SUS08.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/SUS08.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a shot of a polychaete worm and the same urchin.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SUS09.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/SUS09.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nThe blurs in the background are (rotating clockwise from the upper top) a shrimp, an isopod, a melibe, a limpet, and some other creatures. In the foreground, there are the urchin, polychaete worm, and a couple of juvinile Kellet&#8217;s whelks that are either being amorous or quarrelsome. Their proboscises were extended as they wrestled together in what must have seemed to be the macro-marine equivalent of the Colosseum. No, they did not fight to the death, but if they did my money would be on the worm.<br \/>\nI recall that Justin and I used to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/blog\/archives\/002496.html\">polychaetes as bait<\/a> when we went fishing in Awajishima for kawahagi and other strange, exotic fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SUS10.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/SUS10.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nThe kelp crabs and decorator crabs are really good at hiding, and are not very eager to be photographed. It&#8217;s amazing the variety of colors that they display, from lemon yellow to grass green to brick red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny sea urchin rests between closed fingers. This is a shot of a polychaete worm and the same urchin. The blurs in the background are (rotating clockwise from the upper top) a shrimp, an isopod, a melibe, a limpet, and some other creatures. In the foreground, there are the urchin, polychaete worm, and a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/15\/giant-kelp-exploring-a-corner-of-the-microcosm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}