{"id":1333,"date":"2015-07-26T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1333-mouths-agape.html"},"modified":"2015-07-26T01:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T14:52:00","slug":"mouths-agape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1333-mouths-agape.html","title":{"rendered":"Mouths Agape"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1862 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1154-_MG_9839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese little critters are Blue Throat Ascidians (<em>Clavelina australis<\/em>) and live in compound clusters.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey look like a nest of little chicks of some bizarre bird with mouths agape chirping for food.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nActually 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Mouths Agape&#8217; 1\/200s f\/18 ISO100 100mm<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Mouths Agape\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1333-mouths-agape.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mouths Agape\">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-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","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=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}