{"id":6428,"date":"2015-01-14T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:19:28","slug":"alewife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/alewife\/","title":{"rendered":"Alosa pseudoharengus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6429\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150114-alewife-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150114-alewife-sign.jpg\" alt=\"westport river\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150114-alewife-sign.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150114-alewife-sign-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150114-alewife-sign-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alewives reach a maximum length of about 40 centimeters (16 in), but have an average length of about 25 centimeters (10 inches). The front of the body is deep and larger than other fish found in the same waters, and its common name is said to come from comparison with a corpulent female tavernkeeper (&#8220;ale-wife&#8221;).<br \/>\nAlewives are perhaps best known for their <a href=\"http:\/\/nas.er.usgs.gov\/queries\/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=490 non-indigenous occurrences\">invasion<\/a> of the Great Lakes by using the Welland Canal to bypass Niagara Falls.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alewife\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nalewife, kiack, gaspereau, sawbelly, mooneye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alewife, kiack, gaspereau, sawbelly, mooneye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}