{"id":632,"date":"2010-08-02T07:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:35:57","slug":"sea-nettles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/sea-nettles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Nettles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000M1h5ynNsf48\/s\/900\/1353\/932004da.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\u00a9Russ Bishop\/www.russbishop.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000M1h5ynNsf48\/s\/900\/1353\/932004da.jpg\" alt=\"Sea nettle at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, California\" width=\"900\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea nettle at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sea nettle (<em>Chrysaora fuscescens)<\/em> is one of the most fascinating creatures of the open ocean.\u00a0These jelly fish, as they are commonly known,\u00a0are invertebrates with tentacles\u00a0up to\u00a015 feet long and a bell of up to 3 feet in diameter.\u00a0Their deadly sting paralyzes\u00a0their prey\u00a0which includes\u00a0pollock, plankton, and other jellies,\u00a0and they can travel as much as 3,600 feet\u00a0up and down in the water daily in search of food.<\/p>\n<p>This image was made at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is a wonderful place to experience the\u00a0undersea world without getting wet! The graceful movement of the jellies is mesmerizing to watch and the large displays offer unlimited possibilities for creative photography.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Russ Bishop\/All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sea nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens) is one of the most fascinating creatures of the open ocean.\u00a0These jelly fish, as they are commonly known,\u00a0are invertebrates with tentacles\u00a0up to\u00a015 feet long and a bell of up to 3 feet in diameter.\u00a0Their deadly sting paralyzes\u00a0their prey\u00a0which includes\u00a0pollock, plankton, and other jellies,\u00a0and they can travel as much as 3,600 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/sea-nettles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sea Nettles&#8221;<\/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":[8,80],"tags":[15,142,655,144,143,80],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-photography","category-wildlife","tag-california","tag-jelly-fish","tag-marine-life","tag-monterey-bay-aquarium","tag-sea-nettle","tag-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}