{"id":5835,"date":"2016-02-15T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2016-02-15T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:40:54","slug":"the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5835","title":{"rendered":"The Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our most common nudibranch (well at least I think it is) is <em>Ceratosoma brevicaudatum<\/em> and I still have no idea if it has a common name.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s big as far as nudibranchs go. It is bright orange which makes it visible from meters away. Yet still many divers swim right on by.<\/p>\n<p>I will confess that it was more than 20 years before I saw my first nudibranch. Quite simply, if it wasn&#8217;t swimming, I didn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>Underwater photography has completely changed the way I dive and the things I see diving. I&#8217;d recommend taking a camera underwater to all new divers once they have gained some water confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Nudibranachs are just one of the many critters that have brought the little things underwater to life for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018The Little Things&#8217;, 1\/160s f8 ISO100 100mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our most common nudibranch (well at least I think it is) is Ceratosoma brevicaudatum and I still have no idea if it has a common name. It&#8217;s big as far as nudibranchs go. It is bright orange which makes it visible from meters away. Yet still many divers swim right on by. I will confess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[835,259,113,227,511,82,232,112,233,197],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ceratosomabrevicaudatum","tag-critters","tag-diving","tag-edithburgh","tag-edithburghjetty","tag-macro","tag-nudibranch","tag-scuba","tag-seaslug","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5837,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions\/5837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}