{"id":2222,"date":"2021-11-16T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:54:45","slug":"fun-distraction-portuguese-man-o-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2021\/11\/16\/fun-distraction-portuguese-man-o-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Distraction: Portuguese Man O\u2019 War"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2224\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar.jpg\" alt=\"Image advertising the Library\u2019s FUN Distractions series post about Man O\u2019 War jellyfish\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_ManOWar-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Did you know that most jellyfish just ride the currents of the ocean looking for food? Not the Portuguese Man O\u2019 War, it has a gas filled bladder it used to float to the surface and sets sail using a vertical membrane to catch the wind. These fascinating jellyfish can be over 30 feet long and symbiotically harbor Man O\u2019 War fishes that have become desensitized to their lethal sting. Man O\u2019 War can, in rare cases, even kill human with their sting. Learn more in this video from BBC\u2019s Blue Planet II.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aIovmgzyuL0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/aIovmgzyuL0<\/a><br \/><br \/>#memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries<br \/>#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that most jellyfish just ride the currents of the ocean looking for food? Not the Portuguese Man O\u2019 War, it has a gas filled bladder it used to float to the surface and sets sail using a vertical membrane to catch the wind. These fascinating jellyfish can be over 30 feet long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}