{"id":1883,"date":"2019-03-03T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1883-decorate-me.html"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:25:26","slug":"decorate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1883-decorate-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Decorate Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2550 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1688-_MG_6798-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDecorator crabs make fascinators seem lame in comparison to the extravagance of their accessorising.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere are hundreds of species of crabs which decorate themselves in this way and fashion really has nothing to do with it. It&#8217;s all about survival.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBy attaching algae or sponges of their immediate environment they can go about their business unnoticed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf they move into new territory it&#8217;s a simple matter of discarding the old and accessorising with their new home.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDecorator Crab, <em>Naxia aurita<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Decorate Me&#8217; 1\/160s f\/18 ISO320 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decorator crabs make fascinators seem lame in comparison to the extravagance of their accessorising. There are hundreds of species of crabs which decorate themselves in this way and fashion really has nothing to do with it. It&#8217;s all about survival. By attaching algae or sponges of their immediate environment they can go about their business &#8230; <a title=\"Decorate Me\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1883-decorate-me.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Decorate Me\">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-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","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=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}