{"id":151,"date":"2011-06-16T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2021-01-09T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:40:49","slug":"jellies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/jellies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jellies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CIMG27931.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-155  \" title=\"CIMG2793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CIMG27931-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CIMG27931-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CIMG27931-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moon Jellies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqua.org\/\">National Aquarium, Baltimore<\/a> has a pretty cool jellyfish exhibit. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqua.org\/jellies\/\">Jellies Invasion: Oceans Out of Balance<\/a>&#8221; combines eerily lighted displays of jellies floating in futuristic tubes with educational material about the threat the creatures pose to the world&#8217;s oceans. They multiply like crazy and are invading new seas, changing the dynamics of these ecosystems. It&#8217;s curious that a brainless, spineless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.sc.gov\/marine\/pub\/seascience\/jellyfi.html\">jellyfish<\/a> can wreak such havoc (but, as is often the case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/06\/090609092057.htm\">we humans are really to blame<\/a>&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>If you go, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqua.org\/buytickets.html\">buying tickets online<\/a> in advance. You can bypass the crowds, pick up your tickets at at the will-call kiosks, and walk right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The National Aquarium, Baltimore has a pretty cool jellyfish exhibit. &#8220;Jellies Invasion: Oceans Out of Balance&#8221; combines eerily lighted displays of jellies floating in futuristic tubes with educational material about the threat the creatures pose to the world&#8217;s oceans. They multiply like crazy and are invading new seas, changing the dynamics of these ecosystems. It&#8217;s curious that a brainless, spineless jellyfish can wreak such havoc (but, as is often the case, we humans are really to blame&#8230;). If you go, I recommend buying tickets online in advance. You can bypass the crowds, pick up your tickets at at the will-call kiosks, and walk right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baltimore","tag-jellyfish","tag-national-aquarium-baltimore"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisalance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}