{"id":3393,"date":"2011-03-06T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2011-03-06T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:34:36","slug":"behold-the-mighty-scimitar-of-macrocystis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/06\/behold-the-mighty-scimitar-of-macrocystis\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold!  The Mighty Scimitar of Macrocystis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3394\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/40449_1371703102384_1525973548_30950070_6182142_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3394  \" title=\"Jeffries Kelp Scimitar\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/40449_1371703102384_1525973548_30950070_6182142_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/40449_1371703102384_1525973548_30950070_6182142_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/02\/40449_1371703102384_1525973548_30950070_6182142_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: S. Jeffries)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No, this isn&#8217;t a deadly weapon. \u00a0But it does have a blade, or actually, many of them! \u00a0This is the end of a giant kelp frond, better known as the &#8220;scimitar&#8221; blade due to its resemblance. \u00a0Here, new blades are formed. \u00a0As the blade grows, it slowly tears itself away from the scimitar and becomes an individual blade. \u00a0You can see several new blades forming in this scimitar blade, and the ones just to the left are the newest blades that have already separated.<\/p>\n<p>Does the scimitar blade look familiar to you? \u00a0Well, if you&#8217;ve ever visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereybayaquarium.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/a> then it should be! \u00a0The Monterey Bay Aquarium uses the scimitar blade as part of its logo, which you can see on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereybayaquarium.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn&#8217;t a deadly weapon. \u00a0But it does have a blade, or actually, many of them! \u00a0This is the end of a giant kelp frond, better known as the &#8220;scimitar&#8221; blade due to its resemblance. \u00a0Here, new blades are formed. \u00a0As the blade grows, it slowly tears itself away from the scimitar and becomes [&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-3393","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\/3393","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=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}