{"id":8469,"date":"2018-01-10T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:00:05","slug":"this-strange-looking-fellow-is-goku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/this-strange-looking-fellow-is-goku\/","title":{"rendered":"This strange-looking fellow is Goku&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/the-little-fishes-wouldnt-come-out-of-cover-so\/p1200033\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/P1200033-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/P1200033-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/P1200033-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/P1200033-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/P1200033-1080x721.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We got him, about a 4&#8243;-5&#8243; size, to reassure our really baby koi, who would not come out from under their rocks and eat. Baby koi have a strong self-preservation instinct. And big ones frighten them. But so does no big ones in the pond. So&#8230;Goku. Who eats, yes, oh, yes. Kibble is his friend. And true to form, once big brother was there, little brothers and sisters all began to get nerve and eat. I doubt they will catch up with him.<\/p>\n<p>He is a doitsu kin-something, meaning he has those big metal scales on his back, and he is an unusual (to my experience) coppery color. The water he&#8217;s in is a little hazy, but we hope he keeps that color of his. <\/p>\n<p>By summer&#8217;s end he was about twice this size, fat, and fearless. His crimped side fin has grown out considerably, and he seems quite healthy. For those of you who&#8217;ve watched Saiyuki, you know the Goku reference, Monkey, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, a young lad obsessed with eating and possessed of large golden eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got him, about a 4&#8243;-5&#8243; size, to reassure our really baby koi, who would not come out from under their rocks and eat. Baby koi have a strong self-preservation instinct. And big ones frighten them. But so does no big ones in the pond. So&#8230;Goku. Who eats, yes, oh, yes. Kibble is his friend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8471,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}