{"id":11714,"date":"2013-12-16T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11714"},"modified":"2013-12-15T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:42:09","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11714","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have found these fish in the daytime, usually deep inside a cauliflower coral and nearly impossible to photograph. By night they emerge to hunt. As with most scorpionfish, they are ambush hunters, sitting on the bottom and waiting for some hapless critter to come too close. Of course the habit of sitting still makes them ideal targets for a camera, they hold their ground even when the strobe goes off.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11715\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CE17-52-11225-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CE17-52-11225-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Cheekspot Scorpionfish\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CE17-52-11225-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CE17-52-11225-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cheekspot scorpionfish (Scorpaenodes littoralis) near the shore in 4&#8242; of water, Mahukona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found these fish in the daytime, usually deep inside a cauliflower coral and nearly impossible to photograph. By night they emerge to hunt. As with most scorpionfish, they are ambush hunters, sitting on the bottom and waiting for some hapless critter to come too close. Of course the habit of sitting still makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Scorpion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,23],"tags":[1468,1470,98,1469,105,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11717,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions\/11717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}