{"id":845,"date":"2013-11-12T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/845-day-682-starry-eyed-surprise.html"},"modified":"2013-11-13T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:01:05","slug":"day-682-starry-eyed-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/845-day-682-starry-eyed-surprise.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 682, Starry Eyed Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1256 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/682-_MG_6307.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe have some of the most colourful and interesting sea stars here in our Southern waters but I have to admit that I often overlook them as I search for the more &#8216;exotic&#8217; creatures such as nudibranchs, cephalopods or dragons.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSea stars are everywhere and not just many of the same type but a wide variety of species as well. Even sea stars of the same species often look very different from each other as any biscuit star will beautifully demonstrate.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile diving near the &#8216;T&#8217; at Rapid Bay Jetty I came across this Red Sea Star, <em>Pentagonaster dubeni<\/em>, which was as visually conspicuous as an orange safely flare as it sat perched atop some bottom structure.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps I will pay a little more attention to the sea stars in the future and give the &#8216;exotics&#8217; a break for a while!.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 682, Starry Eyed Surprise&#8217;, 1\/160s f\/13 ISO640 40mm+2D<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; We have some of the most colourful and interesting sea stars here in our Southern waters but I have to admit that I often overlook them as I search for the more &#8216;exotic&#8217; creatures such as nudibranchs, cephalopods or dragons. Sea stars are everywhere and not just many of the same &#8230; <a title=\"Day 682, Starry Eyed Surprise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/845-day-682-starry-eyed-surprise.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 682, Starry Eyed 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-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}