{"id":557264,"date":"2018-12-14T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a0faf71e7b488f419401274769620044"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:30:02","slug":"are-reef-corals-stressed-or-just-pessimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=557264","title":{"rendered":"Are reef corals stressed or just pessimistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Climate change threatens coral reefs around the globe. The high temperatures associated with this phenomenon can lead to &#8220;bleaching,&#8221; the breakdown of the symbiosis between corals and the algae that live within their cells. Since corals are nourished by these photosynthetically active algal &#8220;symbionts,&#8221; bleaching \u2013 so called because the coral tissues become clear\/white, exposing the white skeleton beneath \u2013 typically results in coral death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change threatens coral reefs around the globe. The high temperatures associated with this phenomenon can lead to &#8220;bleaching,&#8221; the breakdown of the symbiosis between corals and the algae that live within their cells. Since corals are nourished by these photosynthetically active algal &#8220;symbionts,&#8221; bleaching &ndash; so called because the coral tissues become clear\/white, exposing the white skeleton beneath &ndash; typically results in coral death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557265,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557264\/revisions\/557265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}