{"id":1493,"date":"2016-02-15T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1493-the-little-things.html"},"modified":"2016-02-15T19:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:29:26","slug":"the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1493-the-little-things.html","title":{"rendered":"The Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2075 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1322-_MG_6922.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOur 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUnderwater 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. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nNudibranachs are just one of the many critters that have brought the little things underwater to life for me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018The Little Things&#8217;, 1\/160s f8 ISO100 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"The Little Things\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1493-the-little-things.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Little Things\">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-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}