{"id":2103,"date":"2013-03-22T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2013-03-26T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:31:33","slug":"pic-of-the-day-balloon-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day – Balloon Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Balloon Fish – Diodon holocanthus<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a cutie for a funny Friday fish face. The image of this Balloon Fish (Diodon holocanthus<\/em>) was captured in Ambon Harbour, Indonesia. A member of the porcupine fish family, these guys and gals can inflate themselves up into a really round ball as a defense when threatened. This fish was about a foot long.<\/p>\n

I have never made a puffer fish puff up, but have seen a few in my travels, and they are for sure a pretty hilarious vision – a round spiky bumbling ball of a thing, with flimsy little fins trying (ineffectively) to steer a course for such a momentarily big fish.<\/p>\n

I was hoping to have another chapter of the Komodo Chronicles ready to share for the weekend, but alas, life has got in the way. Hopefully soon…<\/p>\n

PS Thanks to everyone who has been taking the time to “like” or comment on my blog posts. Your ‘likes’ help share my stuff with your Facebook friends. I really appreciate the gesture, and the kind feedback.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a cutie for a funny Friday fish face. The image of this Balloon Fish (Diodon holocanthus) was captured in Ambon Harbour, Indonesia. A member of the porcupine fish family, these guys and gals can inflate themselves up into a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,62,13],"tags":[103,100,102,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}