{"id":127196,"date":"2025-10-17T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127196\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:46:07","slug":"jelly-smack-summer-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127196\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Smack Summer | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Pace&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Pace (USA) finds himself in the middle of a mass or \u2018smack\u2019 of Pacific sea nettles.<\/p>\n<p>To try to protect himself from stings while taking this photograph, Ralph smeared petroleum jelly on any skin not covered by his wetsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The trailing tentacles can deliver a painful sting. Ralph says this feels more like that of a bee than a nettle.<\/p>\n<p>Jellyfish are appearing in larger numbers because they\u2019re highly adaptable to warming seas.<\/p>\n<p>Some biologists think that more frequent smacks are a sign of rising ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Overfishing is another factor because it removes predators and competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralph Pace&#8217;s Image Ralph Pace (USA) finds himself in the middle of a mass or \u2018smack\u2019 of Pacific&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-127196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}