{"id":3079,"date":"2013-01-08T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2013-01-08T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:15:53","slug":"giant-squid-makes-film-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/giant-squid-makes-film-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Squid Makes Film Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Memoranda brings you all the <em>important<\/em> news. Scientists from Japan&#8217;s National Science Museum have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/shining-and-so-beautiful-giant-squid-captured-on-film-for-the-first-time-20130108-2cdk3.html\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald: Giant Squid Captured on Film for First Time\" target=\"_blank\">filmed the giant squid<\/a> in its natural habitat for the first time, in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. Scientist Tsunemi Kubodera described the creature as &#8220;shining and so beautiful&#8221;, and estimated it would have been eight metres long if it hadn&#8217;t been missing its two longest arms.<\/p>\n<p>By an amazing coincidence (well, not all that amazing, considering <a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/anatomy-of-a-novel-a-brief-history-of-montmaray\/\" title=\"Memoranda: Anatomy Of A Novel: A Brief History of Montmaray\" target=\"_blank\">my interest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/puffins-and-giant-squid-and-portuguese-water-dogs\/\" title=\"Memoranda: Puffins and Giant Squid and Portuguese Water Dogs\" target=\"_blank\">in giant squid<\/a>), I was only yesterday reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort\" title=\"Wikipedia: Pierre Denys de Montfort\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre D\u00e9nys de Montfort<\/a>, the French naturalist whose claims about a &#8220;colossal octopus&#8221; that attacked ships were dismissed by his peers as sensationalist nonsense. Poor Pierre! Well, okay, maybe some of his illustrations were slightly exaggerated . . .<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3083\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Denys-de-Montfort-Colossal-Octopus.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Denys de Montfort's &#039;Colossal Octopus&#039; 1810\" title=\"Pierre Denys de Montfort's &#039;Colossal Octopus&#039; 1810\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2988\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre D\u00e9nys de Montfort&#8217;s &#8216;Colossal Octopus&#8217; attacks a merchant ship, 1810<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Memoranda brings you all the important news. Scientists from Japan&#8217;s National Science Museum have filmed the giant squid in its natural habitat for the first time, in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. Scientist Tsunemi Kubodera described the creature as &#8220;shining and so beautiful&#8221;, and estimated it would have been eight metres long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/giant-squid-makes-film-debut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giant Squid Makes Film Debut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-film-and-tv","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}