{"id":295,"date":"2019-07-26T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/?p=295"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:44:13","slug":"orange-sea-fans-of-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/orange-sea-fans-of-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Sea Fans of the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange sea fans (<em>Swiftia\u00a0<\/em><em>exserta<\/em>) or red polyp octocoral are a type of gorgonians that belong to the group of non-photosynthetic cnidarian species. These sea fans occur throughout the west Atlantic in fairly deep (e.g., 60 to 1600 feet) and nutrient-rich waters along coastal areas with moderate currents. Colonies are fan-shaped with orange to red stem and polyps, and grow 6-18 inches in height. Check this <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/orangeseafans\/\">storyboard<\/a> to learn more about these deep water Orange Sea Fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange sea fans (Swiftia\u00a0exserta) or red polyp octocoral are a type of gorgonians that belong to the group of non-photosynthetic cnidarian species. These sea fans occur throughout the west Atlantic in fairly deep (e.g., 60 to 1600 feet) and nutrient-rich waters along coastal areas with moderate currents. Colonies are fan-shaped with orange to red stem&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/orange-sea-fans-of-the-deep\/\">Continue Reading<span> Orange Sea Fans of the Deep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[62,19,46,53,68,17,69,67],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discover","tag-corals","tag-deep-sea","tag-distribution","tag-esa","tag-gorgonians","tag-management","tag-octocoral","tag-orange-sea-fans","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portal.gulfcouncil.org\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}