{"id":3315,"date":"2011-02-19T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2011-02-19T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:05:46","slug":"whip-it-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/02\/19\/whip-it-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Whip it Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3316\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3316\" title=\"Sea whip\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get too excited, cowboys \u2013 cracking this sea whip would harm the fragile animal.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, this is a photo of an animal &#8211; or many animals, actually.\u00a0 Sea whips are a type of deep-sea coral, and the &#8220;whip&#8221; structure is composed of a bunch of tiny polyps, each with its own mouth and tiny tentacles. \u00a0 These colonies live on the sea floor, and are sometimes collected during fish trawl surveys like this one was.\u00a0 Couple them with<a title=\"LOOK it\u2019s a coral, no it\u2019s a tumbleweed, no it\u2019s a\u00a0rhodolith!\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/01\/26\/look-its-a-coral-no-its-a-tumbleweed-no-its-a-rhodolith\/\"> ocean tumbleweeds<\/a> and you&#8217;d have yourself a sure-fire ocean Western.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3317\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3317\" title=\"Sea whip2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/sea-whip2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get too excited, cowboys \u2013 cracking this sea whip would harm the fragile animal.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, this is a photo of an animal &#8211; or many animals, actually.\u00a0 Sea whips are a type of deep-sea coral, and the &#8220;whip&#8221; structure is composed of a bunch of tiny polyps, each with its own mouth and [&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":[158],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","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\/3315","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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}