{"id":86,"date":"2009-04-18T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-04-18T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T20:33:39","slug":"field-trip-to-the-shedd-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/field-trip-to-the-shedd-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip to the Shedd Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

One very good indication that I have chosen the correct grad school is that we’ve already been on a field trip. \u00a0 Today, our Fossils<\/strong> class went to the Shedd Aquarium<\/a> in Chicago, IL.\u00a0 This is an extraordinary place.\u00a0 I felt like a child again, wandering from tank to tank, staring in awe at the wondrous fishes, reptiles and sea creatures.<\/p>\n

Nature generates some of the oddest adaptations–like this sea horse below, that has been modified through time to blend in with the underwater plants in its habitat.<\/p>\n

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Sea Horse at the Shedd Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n

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Believe it or not, this is a sea horse!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

When you see these creatures–so delicate and so intricate, you wonder how they survive and flourish in the rough oceans.<\/p>\n

I am captivated by jellyfish. They’re so alien and so serene. By the time I had photographed them once, they had already changed their colors (see below).<\/p>\n

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Jellyfish at the Shedd Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jellyfish<\/a>

Jellyfish at the Shedd Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n

They truly are amazing organisms.<\/p>\n

This little guy, below, was such a poser that I felt like I had to photograph him, lest I make him “crabby.”<\/p>\n

\"Crab<\/a>

Crab at the Shedd Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n

The underwater colors and landscapes rival anything on land.\u00a0 This mysterious world seems to challenge everything we thought we knew about Earth.\u00a0 Take this sea anemone below–is it a plant?\u00a0 Is it an animal?\u00a0 Is it both?\u00a0 Is it neither?\u00a0 Such is the allure of places like the Shedd Aquarium–a fantastic attraction that gives us land-dwelling hominids a rare glimpse into the hidden corners of the world.<\/p>\n

\"Anemone<\/a>

Anemone at the Shedd Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One very good indication that I have chosen the correct grad school is that we’ve already been on a field trip. \u00a0 Today, our Fossils class went to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL.\u00a0 This is an extraordinary place.\u00a0 I felt like a child again, wandering from tank to tank, staring in awe at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephroling.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}