{"id":43268,"date":"2022-04-05T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/aurora-of-the-sea-luminous-plankton-light-up-new-zealand-shores"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T02:26:07","slug":"aurora-of-the-sea-luminous-plankton-light-up-new-zealand-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43268","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Aurora of the sea\u2019: luminous plankton light up New Zealand shores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare phenomenon of bioluminescence is caused by blooms of plankton which glow to evade or distract predators<\/p>\n<p>On the shorelines of New Zealand\u2019s north island, shores have been lit up by the glowing \u201caurora of the sea\u201d: blooms of plankton that glow blue-green after nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>The elusive, beautiful phenomenon that sometimes sweeps into the coasts was witnessed by local \u201cbiohunter\u201d enthusiasts who scour the shorelines for bioluminescence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/aurora-of-the-sea-luminous-plankton-light-up-new-zealand-shores\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare phenomenon of bioluminescence is caused by blooms of plankton which glow to evade or distract predatorsOn the shorelines of New Zealand\u2019s north island, shores have been lit up by the glowing \u201caurora of the sea\u201d: blooms of plankton that glow blue-g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,467,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-oceans","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43269,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions\/43269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}