{"id":5115,"date":"2015-07-26T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2015-07-26T19:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T08:48:47","slug":"mouths-agape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5115","title":{"rendered":"Mouths Agape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These little critters are Blue Throat Ascidians (<em>Clavelina australis<\/em>) and live in compound clusters.<\/p>\n<p>They look like a nest of little chicks of some bizarre bird with mouths agape chirping for food.<\/p>\n<p>Actually just like birds these critters are chordates and though they don&#8217;t really have a backbone they do have long nerve running the length of their body making for a rudimentary spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Mouths Agape&#8217; 1\/200s f\/18 ISO100 100mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These little critters are Blue Throat Ascidians (Clavelina australis) and live in compound clusters. They look like a nest of little chicks of some bizarre bird with mouths agape chirping for food. Actually just like birds these critters are chordates and though they don&#8217;t really have a backbone they do have long nerve running the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,797,798,799,263,259,113,34,70,111,112,197],"class_list":["post-5115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-ascidian","tag-bluethroat","tag-clavelinaaustralis","tag-creatures","tag-critters","tag-diving","tag-jetty","tag-ocean","tag-rapidbay","tag-scuba","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","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=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}