{"id":27,"date":"2026-05-19T07:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:30:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim has-background-gradient\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(1,1,1) 0%,rgba(155,81,224,0) 100%)\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/17665920531_b41963c4b2_o-1440x1207-1-e1779391707778.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-post-image\" alt=\"sea star on rock\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignfull has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>What this website is about<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The reasons as to why I chose to make a website about this subject matter, and what I hope to accomplish with it<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This website is dedicated to documenting information about marine echinoderm species, detailing their behavior in their natural habitats and interesting facts about each one. The reason why I chose specifically to research this subject matter is due to how much marine life interests me, and echinoderms have always been the one marine species that interested me the most which makes me want to learn more about them. This is because of how different each one is from each other despite some of their similarities, this can be seen through the greatly differing shapes and colors of different echinoderms especially when you put two echinoderms like a crinoid and a sea cucumber right next to each other. What I most want to accomplish with a website like this is educating and teaching people about unusual creatures that not all may be familiar with, and spreading the word of these fascinating animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is dedicated to documenting information about marine echinoderm species, detailing their behavior in their natural habitats and interesting facts about each one. The reason why I chose specifically to research this subject matter is due to how much marine life interests me, and echinoderms have always been the one marine species that interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianallen.matmcc.org\/Final\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}