{"id":684,"date":"2007-08-29T09:52:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/the-hunters\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:52:05","slug":"the-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/29\/the-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the%20hunters.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/the%20hunters.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" \/><br \/>\nThe Yellowtails are the coolest fish in the Kelp Forest Exhibit. Not only are they my favorite sashimi fish and great fighting on the rod, but they&#8217;re also fun to watch under water. They cruise around like a pack of attack submarines, and the bait fish try to keep as far away from them as possible.<br \/>\nOftentimes, the other fish will use this to their advantage and snag an Anchovy that&#8217;s broken formation with the rest of the school and preoccupied with watching the Yellowtail. Many a Rockfish has gotten its lunch in said fashion, thanks to the Yellowtail.<br \/>\nOn this day, one of the &#8216;tails was chasing a Leopard Shark, that was three times it&#8217;s size, around the exhibit. It kept on rubbing against the shark, and despite trying its hardest, the shark was unable to run away.<br \/>\nI wonder if it was using the shark as a back scratcher, to dislodge parasites, or asserting its dominance as king of the exhibit. Maybe it was a bit of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellowtails are the coolest fish in the Kelp Forest Exhibit. Not only are they my favorite sashimi fish and great fighting on the rod, but they&#8217;re also fun to watch under water. They cruise around like a pack of attack submarines, and the bait fish try to keep as far away from them as &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/29\/the-hunters\/\">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-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}