{"id":1389,"date":"2015-10-09T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1389-hidden-dragon.html"},"modified":"2015-10-09T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:12:39","slug":"hidden-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1389-hidden-dragon.html","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:1939 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1220-_MG_1880-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe reason the Leafy Seadragon seems so elusive is that it blends so well into its environment.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt does not matter if it&#8217;s in kelp or bubble weed or any other of the many species of yellow algae inhabiting our coastal waters, they just seems to disappear into the detail.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor many years I dived in locations where Leafy Seadragons were common and never saw them until I started photographing them.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow I see them most times I dive where they are still hidden most of the time but not so elusive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Crouching Diver, Hidden Dragon&#8217;, 1\/200s f\/5.6 ISO200 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason the Leafy Seadragon seems so elusive is that it blends so well into its environment. It does not matter if it&#8217;s in kelp or bubble weed or any other of the many species of yellow algae inhabiting our coastal waters, they just seems to disappear into the detail. For many years I dived &#8230; <a title=\"Hidden Dragon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1389-hidden-dragon.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hidden Dragon\">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-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}