{"id":840,"date":"2013-11-07T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/840-day-677-being-watched.html"},"modified":"2013-11-08T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:29:15","slug":"day-677-being-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/840-day-677-being-watched.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 677, Being Watched"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1245 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/677-_MG_6080.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have now seen three difference species of ray down at a Rapid Bay over the last few days.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis guy is a masked stingaree (<em>Trygonoptera personata)<\/em> and although common to South Australian coastal waters was not actually recognised as a unique species until relatively recently, in fact, about the same time I learned to scuba dive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I had seen these on previous dives I had mistaken them for juveniles but this little guy is probably a fully grown individual and was happy to just lay there and watch as we watched back.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 677, Being Watched&#8217;, 1\/100s f\/18 ISO320 100mm+20mmExt<\/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; I have now seen three difference species of ray down at a Rapid Bay over the last few days. This guy is a masked stingaree (Trygonoptera personata) and although common to South Australian coastal waters was not actually recognised as a unique species until relatively recently, in fact, about the same &#8230; <a title=\"Day 677, Being Watched\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/840-day-677-being-watched.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 677, Being Watched\">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-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}