{"id":2054,"date":"2021-01-19T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2054-beautiful-in-blue.html"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:20:00","slug":"beautiful-in-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2054-beautiful-in-blue.html","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful in Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2715 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1849-_MG_9264.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOf all our gorgeous Southern Australian marine critters there are few as beautiful as our Southern Blue Devil.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTimid, elegant, graceful and a dazzlingly iridescent blue, their grumpy expression seems at odds with their vibrant colour. They are a fish that always make me smile when encountered on a dive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNormally a shy and reclusive fish, I struggle getting close to blue devils. They are are never far from some deep ledge or cave and almost always retreat back into the gloom when approached.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nImagine my shear delight on a recent night dive on the wreck of the ex HMAS Hobart where I counted at least ten of them roaming the sunken growth encrusted decks. I\u2019d never seen so many on a single dive and never out in the open like then.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat amazing dive left me grinning for days and will always be remembered as the night I dived with the beautiful blue devils. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n#animals #critters #diving #exhmashobart #hobart #wreck #fish #bluedevil #night #ocean #photogenic #portrait #scuba #diving #underwater #Paraplesiopsmeleagris<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all our gorgeous Southern Australian marine critters there are few as beautiful as our Southern Blue Devil. Timid, elegant, graceful and a dazzlingly iridescent blue, their grumpy expression seems at odds with their vibrant colour. They are a fish that always make me smile when encountered on a dive. Normally a shy and reclusive &#8230; <a title=\"Beautiful in Blue\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2054-beautiful-in-blue.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beautiful in Blue\">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-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}