{"id":1816,"date":"2018-10-27T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1816-dragon-fruit.html"},"modified":"2018-10-27T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:50:00","slug":"dragon-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1816-dragon-fruit.html","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2477 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1632-_MG_4677-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI never grow tired diving with these beautiful creatures and I still give a quiet yelp of delight when I find my first one on a dive.<br \/>\nLast weekend I was fortunate enough to see several of these gorgeous leafy seadragons during my dive at Rapid Bay.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis male is carrying a fresh batch of eggs which his female partner has left in his care while she goes off to do what ever females do when they don&#8217;t have to nurture their young. He will protect them from predation while they develop but in a few weeks when they hatch they will emerge into a world where they will have to start fending for themselves and our male gets his leafy seadragon life back.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe are so lucky to live in a part of the world with such amazing critters as these.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Dragon Fruit&#8217;, 1\/80s f\/8 ISO320 15mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never grow tired diving with these beautiful creatures and I still give a quiet yelp of delight when I find my first one on a dive. Last weekend I was fortunate enough to see several of these gorgeous leafy seadragons during my dive at Rapid Bay. This male is carrying a fresh batch of &#8230; <a title=\"Dragon Fruit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1816-dragon-fruit.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dragon Fruit\">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-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}