{"id":530,"date":"2007-04-16T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T01:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/530"},"modified":"2007-04-24T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T15:10:39","slug":"youll-always-be-my-flamboyant-cuddlefish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/530","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll always be my flamboyant cuddlefish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the intersection of aquatic life and the linguistic phenomenon referred to as the glottal stop is my new favorite animal. The cuttlefish. Cuddlefish,   as I and all my American intervocalic-R speaking, Midwestern native neighbors would say. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/camo\/\">Nova<\/a> had a show featuring the darlings of the<br \/>\nCephalopod<br \/>\nworld. I learned that there&#8217;s a species of cuttlefish (not a fish) called the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flamboyant_Cuttlefish\"> flamboyant cuttle fish<\/a> and I&#8217;m in love. In the show, they had been talking about cuttlefish in general &#8211; how they change colors like they&#8217;re LED-packed, how they&#8217;re smarter than most birds, and how they&#8217;re smart possibly because they&#8217;ve given up their exterior armor &#8211; and then they introduce the flamboyant cuttlefish. Now, they talk about this species with B roll of this super-cute, plump, colorful, kinda-octopus, kinda-plush toy-looking thing that waddled around walking (instead of swimming, like their cuttlefish friends) and I almost fell over. Then they showed how big they were &#8230; about an inch long. Eeeeeeee!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.undersea.com.au\/images\/cuttle7.jpg\" alt=\"Flamboyant Cuttlefish\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some video.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to try making a plush version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the intersection of aquatic life and the linguistic phenomenon referred to as the glottal stop is my new favorite animal. The cuttlefish. Cuddlefish, as I and all my American intervocalic-R speaking, Midwestern native neighbors would say. Nova had a show featuring the darlings of the Cephalopod world. I learned that there&#8217;s a species of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-did-it-for-schmience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}