{"id":2548,"date":"2014-11-01T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/2014\/11\/01\/videotitle-3\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T01:33:10","slug":"the-blanket-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"The Blanket Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Google+ reshared post<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Blanket Octopus:<\/p>\n<p>This species of octopus is able to open its tentacles to reveal a thin and very colorful membrane which spreads out like a &quot;blanket,&quot; hence its name. The Blanket Octopus does this to make itself look bigger and to ward off predators. <\/p>\n<p>If that wasn&#8217;t strange enough, the blanket octopus has evolved an immunity to the poison of the man-of-war. Not because it was its prey, but so that it could rip off its venomous tentacles and use it against anything that comes to attack it. <\/p>\n<p>Picture by: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/user\/IlIlIlIl\" class=\"ot-anchor bidi_isolate\" jslog=\"10929; track:click\" dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/imgur.com\/user\/IlIlIlIl<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-UY0zHJZbhZE\/VFUuGKL-XiI\/AAAAAAAAWV0\/UB9gmw3Wqwg\/w618-h601\/7oLF9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Import\u00e9 de <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104239776541827516598\/posts\/Qm3Emuqo35k\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google+ reshared post The Blanket Octopus: This species of octopus is able to open its tentacles to reveal a thin and very colorful membrane which spreads out like a &quot;blanket,&quot; hence its name. The Blanket Octopus does this to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=2548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}