{"id":427,"date":"2006-01-28T14:21:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/octopus-attack\/"},"modified":"2006-02-01T23:32:40","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T07:32:40","slug":"octopus-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/octopus-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having seen <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a> of a shark being attacked by a giant octopus, it reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/3370019.stm\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> I read about remains of giant squid and colossal squids being found from the stomach of a shark. The same article also cites how it is common to see whales bear the scars from a fight with giant squids. Jesus Christ&#8230; <i>fighting<\/i> a whale? <\/p>\n<p>And then today I read yet <a href=\"http:\/\/sympatico.msn.cbc.ca\/story\/science\/national\/2006\/01\/27\/octopus060127.html\" target=\"_blank\">another article<\/a> about this giant octopus attacking a submarine! Holy Christ&#8230; These squids and octopuses really kick ass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/giant_squid.png\" width=\"203\" height=\"209\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Giant squids\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related articles about these magnificent creatures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2910849.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Super squid surfaces in Antarctic<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2661691.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Giant squid &#8216;attacks French boat&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having seen this video of a shark being attacked by a giant octopus, it reminded me of an article I read about remains of giant squid and colossal squids being found from the stomach of a shark. The same article also cites how it is common to see whales bear the scars from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/octopus-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Octopus Attack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-6T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}