{"id":384,"date":"2016-06-06T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galakiwi.com\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2016-07-26T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:22:36","slug":"galapagos-octopus-wants-to-fight-nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/galapagos-octopus-wants-to-fight-nope\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Octopus Wants to Fight? Nope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some sea creatures, such as the octopus, get a bad rap in the media. They are often portrayed to be menacing, scary animals that are out to do you harm if you enter the ocean. Well, we&#8217;re happy to report that the octopus in\u00a0the Galapagos Islands only\u00a0want to be your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Just like our friendly Galapagos sharks, Octopus in the Galapagos have no reason to attack snorkellers. They&#8217;re too busy enjoying the good life in the Galapagos!<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, we couldn&#8217;t help but feel sorry for this little Octopus who was trying to hide and rest among the rocks off the coast of Isabela Island, near Los Tintoreras.<\/p>\n<p>It seems some small, territorial Galapagos Damselfish were wanting to pick a fight with an Octopus. But, as is the case with most Galapagos wildlife, this one\u00a0wasn&#8217;t interested.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCkMsNW_q-U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some sea creatures, such as the octopus, get a bad rap in the media. They are often portrayed to be menacing, scary animals that are out to do you harm if you enter the ocean. Well, we&#8217;re happy to report that the octopus in\u00a0the Galapagos Islands only\u00a0want to be your friends. Just like our friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galapagos-wildlife","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galakiwi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}