{"id":1570,"date":"2015-11-16T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T18:06:30","slug":"burbot-november-16-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/burbot-november-16-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Burbot, November 16, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1571\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/burbot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1571\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/burbot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Burbot\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/burbot-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/burbot-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/burbot-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/burbot.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burbot (<em>click to see the larger version<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning I saw a strange fish at Montrose, a fish I&#8217;ve never seen before. I&#8217;m familiar with most of the local fish and I can at least place them into larger categories, e.g., salmon, bass, pike, gar, but this one looked nothing like any fish I&#8217;ve ever seen in the wild. It reminded me of a cod and I vaguely recalled that there is a freshwater cod-like fish found in the Great Lakes called a Burbot. When I got home I did some research and my mystery fish matches up very well with a Burbot (<em>Lota lota<\/em>). According to Wikipedia, Burbot are benthic in nature, which means they inhabit the lowest levels of a body of water, which might explain why I don&#8217;t see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I saw a strange fish at Montrose, a fish I&#8217;ve never seen before. I&#8217;m familiar with most of the local fish and I can at least place them into larger categories, e.g., salmon, bass, pike, gar, but this one looked nothing like any fish I&#8217;ve ever seen in the wild. It reminded me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[163,35],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-wildlife","tag-fish","tag-lake-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}