{"id":4490,"date":"2011-09-14T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2011-09-14T07:32:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:32:55","slug":"the-stargazer-fish-a-pretty-name-if-not-a-pretty-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/09\/14\/the-stargazer-fish-a-pretty-name-if-not-a-pretty-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stargazer Fish &#8211; a Pretty Name, If Not a Pretty Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4491\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/09\/stargazer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4491\" title=\"Stargazer\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/09\/stargazer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/09\/stargazer.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/09\/stargazer-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/erin-loury\/\">Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n<p>It might not be one of the the shiniest stars of the deep sea, but the stargazer fish certainly has some unique adaptations.\u00a0 With eyes on top of its head (the source of that romantic name) and an upturned mouth, the stargazer can bury itself in the sand where it is perfectly poised to snatch an unsuspecting meal swimming by.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t get too dreamy-eyed if you ever try to handle one &#8211; those spines behind the head have venom that can pack a sting.\u00a0 This fish is more on guerrilla tactics than moonlit strolls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab It might not be one of the the shiniest stars of the deep sea, but the stargazer fish certainly has some unique adaptations.\u00a0 With eyes on top of its head (the source of that romantic name) and an upturned mouth, the stargazer can bury itself in the sand where it [&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":[118],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fish"],"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\/4490","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=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}