{"id":4828,"date":"2015-04-24T02:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2015-04-24T02:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:45:24","slug":"bluey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"Bluey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Ringed Octopus, <em>Hapalochlaena maculosa<\/em>, is one of the deadliest creatures in the sea with a venomous bite that can kill a human.<\/p>\n<p>Normally they are not seen during the day so a night dive under Edithburgh Jetty is a good way to find one if you really want to.<\/p>\n<p>On this particular dive I counted four out hunting in the rubble and curiously they all had their famous blue rings subdued to gentle blue flecks.<br \/>\nNormally very timid they did not seem the slightest bit perturbed by my lights and camera as they went about their business hunting.<\/p>\n<p>It was common to see as in this case two front legs extended as they waited to ambush some unsuspecting passerby.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Bluey&#8217; 1\/100s f\/20 ISO160 100mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Ringed Octopus, Hapalochlaena maculosa, is one of the deadliest creatures in the sea with a venomous bite that can kill a human. Normally they are not seen during the day so a night dive under Edithburgh Jetty is a good way to find one if you really want to. On this particular dive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,520,260,263,259,113,227,84,34,82,106,70,519,112,88,197],"class_list":["post-4828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-blueringed","tag-cephlapod","tag-creatures","tag-critters","tag-diving","tag-edithburgh","tag-hunting","tag-jetty","tag-macro","tag-night","tag-ocean","tag-octopus","tag-scuba","tag-sea","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}