{"id":1258,"date":"2015-04-24T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1258-bluey.html"},"modified":"2015-04-24T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:03:12","slug":"bluey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1258-bluey.html","title":{"rendered":"Bluey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1792 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1090-_MG_7880.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNormally 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt was common to see as in this case two front legs extended as they waited to ambush some unsuspecting passerby.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Bluey&#8217; 1\/100s f\/20 ISO160 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; 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. &#8230; <a title=\"Bluey\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1258-bluey.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bluey\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}