{"id":3165,"date":"2012-04-08T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:57:55","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-helmet-urchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Helmet Urchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are everywhere in the tide zone, an extraordinarily common species.  So common I usually forget to take a picture.  A closer look shows a cool animal.  The spines are modified, no sharp needles here, armor plates instead.  An excellent arrangement for resisting the fury of the waves and still giving protection from would be predators.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3104\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3104\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3104\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE43-48-12063-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Helmet Urchin\" title=\"Helmet Urchin\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE43-48-12063-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE43-48-12063-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-3104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helmet urchin (Colobocentrotus atratus) in the tidal zona at O&#039;oma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are everywhere in the tide zone, an extraordinarily common species. So common I usually forget to take a picture. A closer look shows a cool animal. The spines are modified, no sharp needles here, armor plates instead. An excellent arrangement for resisting the fury of the waves and still giving protection from would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Helmet Urchin&#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":[4,5,23],"tags":[300,98,97],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165"}],"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=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}