{"id":85,"date":"2003-04-03T00:26:01","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T00:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-12-05T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:58:09","slug":"kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i170\/groonk\/_39043313_colossal_squid_203inf.gif\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/2910849.stm\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All we knew prior to this specimen coming through was that this animal lived in the abyssal environment down in Antarctica,&#8221; New Zealand squid expert and senior research fellow at Auckland University of Technology, Dr Steve O&#8217;Shea, told BBC News Online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we know that it is moving right through the water column, right up to the very surface and it grows to a spectacular size.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean. &#8220;All we knew prior to this specimen coming through was that this animal lived in the abyssal environment down in Antarctica,&#8221; New Zealand squid expert and senior research fellow at Auckland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-science","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}