{"id":2178,"date":"2013-04-06T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2013-04-06T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T22:20:36","slug":"pic-of-the-day-stonycoral-ghostgoby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day &#8211; Stonycoral Ghostgoby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2179\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2179\" data-attachment-id=\"2179\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2179\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,399\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1291139697&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9awoosh.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Awoosh.com Images\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2179\" alt=\"Awoosh.com Images\" src=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403.jpg 600w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ps_DSC5403-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Stonycoral Ghostgoby &#8211; Pleurosicya micheli<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I seem to be on bit of a macro run ;^) I captured this little goby on a trip to the Banda Sea, in Indonesia. When trying to identify it, I had to wade through pages and pages (and yet more pages) of goby images in my ID book (Reef Fish Identification &#8211; Tropical Pacific &#8211; Allen, Humann, Deloach &amp; Steene) to try to make a match. So many gobies, so little time (and patience ;^)<\/p>\n<p>Although this guy is resting on a bubble coral, I think it is a Stonycoral Ghostgoby. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.<\/p>\n<p>These gobies are pretty tiny &#8211; max about an inch long, and they tend to dart around, though they never leave the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I seem to be on bit of a macro run ;^) I captured this little goby on a trip to the Banda Sea, in Indonesia. When trying to identify it, I had to wade through pages and pages (and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[109,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}