{"id":3137,"date":"2012-03-27T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2012-03-22T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T05:08:43","slug":"devil-scorpionfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Devil Scorpionfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t spot it this time either.  It was Mark who was pointing at the coral.  I looked, looked again&#8230; Oh! There is something there.  The camouflage these fish utilize is impressive, even from quite close they blend amazingly well with the coral and algae.  I wonder how many times I have drifted past one of these fish without seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>As Olivier and I got closer to take a few photos, the fish began to walk away.  Yes, I said walk.  The fish would walk several feet on its pectoral fins then try to sit still and hide again.  A truly weird thing, watching a fish walk across the reef.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3105\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3105\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE43-70-12063-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Devil Scorpionfish\" title=\"Devil Scorpionfish\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE43-70-12063-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE43-70-12063-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-3105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devil Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus) on the reef at O&#039;oma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t spot it this time either. It was Mark who was pointing at the coral. I looked, looked again&#8230; Oh! There is something there. The camouflage these fish utilize is impressive, even from quite close they blend amazingly well with the coral and algae. I wonder how many times I have drifted past one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Devil Scorpionfish&#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":[289,2100,132,98,105],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137"}],"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=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}