{"id":2139,"date":"2013-04-03T11:12:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2013-04-03T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:23:20","slug":"pic-of-the-day-spongeworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day &#8211; Spongeworthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2138\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2138\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"399,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1291389460&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9awoosh.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Awoosh.com Images\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2138 aligncenter\" alt=\"Awoosh.com Images\" src=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039.jpg 399w, https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC6039-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s pic is a bigass barrel sponge, taken in the Banda Sea of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Sponges are cool things &#8211; they grow big (this one was at least four feet tall), and fast, and are host to several little reef critters, including hairy squat lobsters (I&#8217;ll share one of those tomorrow). It is not unusual to look down the barrel and see a fish lurking &#8211; common squatters are coral trout and lionfish.<\/p>\n<p>The diver in the shot is Ali &#8211; an Indonesian dive guide famous for his great giggle, and his eagle-eyed prowess at finding really cool stuff. We first met Ali when he was a dive guide on the (now defunct) Archipelago Adventurer II. He has moved over to the Arenui, and continues to be a great spotter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s pic is a bigass barrel sponge, taken in the Banda Sea of Indonesia. Sponges are cool things &#8211; they grow big (this one was at least four feet tall), and fast, and are host to several little reef critters, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2139\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}