{"id":1614,"date":"2017-01-05T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1614-super-cute-surprise.html"},"modified":"2017-01-05T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:22:59","slug":"super-cute-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1614-super-cute-surprise.html","title":{"rendered":"Super Cute Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2233 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1446-_MG_6838.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat a super cute way to herald in a New Year of diving; my first every sighting of a short-head seahorse, <em>Hippocampus breviceps<\/em> at Rapid Bay.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere is no reason why I should not have seen a seahorse under Rapid Bay Jetty in the hundreds of dives I have enjoyed here. I just haven&#8217;t. Even my dive buddy Alexius had never seen a short-head seahorse here and he is one of the best critter spotters I know.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nActually this little guy was under the new Jetty which has a different kind of benthic structure. More seagrasses and less algaes so maybe that has something to do with it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps I will spend a little more time exploring the new Jetty from now on. Who know what surprises await.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Super Cute Surprise&#8217; 1\/160s f\/18 ISO320 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; What a super cute way to herald in a New Year of diving; my first every sighting of a short-head seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps at Rapid Bay. There is no reason why I should not have seen a seahorse under Rapid Bay Jetty in the hundreds of dives I have enjoyed here. &#8230; <a title=\"Super Cute Surprise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1614-super-cute-surprise.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Super Cute Surprise\">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-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","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=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}