{"id":8466,"count":3,"description":"Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual \"polyps\". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.\nA coral \"head\" is a colony of myriad genetically identical polyps. Each polyp is a spineless animal typically only a few millimeters in diameter and a few centimeters in length. A set of tentacles surround a central mouth opening. An exoskeleton is excreted near the base. Over many generations, the colony thus creates a large skeleton that is characteristic of the species. Individual heads grow by asexual reproduction of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning: polyps of the same species release gametes simultaneously over a period of one to several nights around a full moon.\nAlthough corals can catch small fish and plankton, using stinging cells on their tentacles, most corals obtain the majority of their energy...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/coral\/","name":"Coral","slug":"coral","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}