{"id":2923,"date":"2011-01-17T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2011-01-17T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:30:32","slug":"is-that-a-jellyfish-or-plastic-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/01\/17\/is-that-a-jellyfish-or-plastic-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that a Jellyfish or Plastic Bag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2925\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/jelly-or-plastic-bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2925\" title=\"Jelly or plastic bag\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/jelly-or-plastic-bag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/jelly-or-plastic-bag.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/jelly-or-plastic-bag-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear, it&#8217;s blobby, and it floats in the ocean.\u00a0 This photo of a moon jelly in Monterey Bay makes it easy to understand sea turtles&#8217; confusion in mistaking plastic bags for their favorite snacks. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a hard call when jellies can look so much like (no offense) <em>trash<\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the turtles, the mistake can be fatal if too much of that non-digestible plastic accumulates in their stomachs.\u00a0 Maybe they&#8217;d be better off sticking to <a title=\"Fried Egg Without the Cholesterol\u2026 Who Knew it Could Look So\u00a0Good?\" href=\"\/2010\/12\/16\/fried-egg-without-the-cholesterol-who-knew-it-could-look-so-good\/\">jellies that resemble breakfast foods<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clear, it&#8217;s blobby, and it floats in the ocean.\u00a0 This photo of a moon jelly in Monterey Bay makes it easy to understand sea turtles&#8217; confusion in mistaking plastic bags for their favorite snacks. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a hard call when jellies can look so much like (no offense) trash.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the turtles, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}