{"id":9525,"date":"2013-08-04T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:13:29","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-honeycomb-coral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9525","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Honeycomb Coral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth a moment, even in the limited time of a dive, to stop and look close at the coral itself.  Never mind the psychedelic fish, the coral is what makes a reef.  Untold billions of small polyps, each a separate animal, cooperate to build the largest natural structures in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Some corals are easier to examine closely.  Honeycomb coral has corallites much larger than most, easier to get a good look without magnification.  Getting your mask close allows you to appreciate each little animal, part of the larger colony.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9453\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=9453\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9453\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CF45-10-13146-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Honeycomb Coral\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closeup view of honeycomb coral (Gardineroseris planulata) showing the individual corallites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth a moment, even in the limited time of a dive, to stop and look close at the coral itself. Never mind the psychedelic fish, the coral is what makes a reef. Untold billions of small polyps, each a separate animal, cooperate to build the largest natural structures in the world. Some corals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Honeycomb Coral&#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":[267,1116,1115,1117,98,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525"}],"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=9525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}