{"id":9900,"date":"2011-01-26T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9900"},"modified":"2013-06-18T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T22:30:52","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-dragon-moray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9900","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Dragon Moray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the rarer, but very impressive, moray eels of the Hawaiian Islands is the Dragon Moray. This is my first decent sighting of one. Decent meaning I did not see the last bit disappearing into the coral, and actually saw the head for more than a glimpse.<\/p>\n<p>He was staying well out of harm&#8217;s way with noisy divers about, deep in an antler coral head. The location also made the eel fairly difficult to photograph. I used my usual in-coral-head technique&#8230; zoom in, pray for focus, and nuke the coral head with light.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9901\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=9901\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9901\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CD69-11-10365-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Moray\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CD69-11-10365-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CD69-11-10365-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-9901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Dragon Moray (Enchelycore pardalis) in a coral head at 40ft depth, Suck &#8216;Em Up Cavern, Kona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the rarer, but very impressive, moray eels of the Hawaiian Islands is the Dragon Moray. This is my first decent sighting of one. Decent meaning I did not see the last bit disappearing into the coral, and actually saw the head for more than a glimpse. He was staying well out of harm&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Dragon Moray&#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":[1170,1171,292,1172,98,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900"}],"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=9900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9903,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions\/9903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}