{"id":3109,"date":"2011-02-10T08:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2011-02-10T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:31:46","slug":"3109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/02\/10\/3109\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star with Two Dozen Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3111\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/38551_1371703342390_1525973548_30950075_7916123_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3111\" title=\"JeffriesPycnopodia\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/38551_1371703342390_1525973548_30950075_7916123_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/38551_1371703342390_1525973548_30950075_7916123_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/38551_1371703342390_1525973548_30950075_7916123_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: S. Jeffries)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the gentle name of the sunflower star fool you &#8211; these giant sea stars are voracious predators of the kelp forest.\u00a0 Wielding 24 arms and growing to sizes of over three feet across, <em>Pycnopodia helianthoides <\/em>is a fearsome force to be reckoned with for its prey of urchins, snails, clams &#8211; even other sea stars.\u00a0 When you have that many arms, you don&#8217;t have to play nice.\u00a0 <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let the gentle name of the sunflower star fool you &#8211; these giant sea stars are voracious predators of the kelp forest.\u00a0 Wielding 24 arms and growing to sizes of over three feet across, Pycnopodia helianthoides is a fearsome force to be reckoned with for its prey of urchins, snails, clams &#8211; even other [&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":[92,158],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diving","tag-invertebrates"],"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\/3109","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=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}