{"id":286,"date":"2011-04-16T19:32:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=286"},"modified":"2011-04-18T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T18:24:54","slug":"first-2-koi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/04\/first-2-koi\/","title":{"rendered":"First 2 koi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Atlanta Koi Club Koi auction today. I placed bids on several fish  but the prices were a bit higher than my planned budget. The prices compared to retail were very good. I will definitely go back next year. <\/p>\n<p>I did win a nice Kojaku [updated] and a nice gin-rin long fin Kohaku for $75. Both are about 14 inches and are a redish orange and white tone. Nice large fish for the price. They are sitting in their bags at the moment acclamating to temperature. I prepped the pond by adding ick and parasite medication to make sure they have a good chance at survival.<\/p>\n<p>Update: the Kojaku regular fin is a blend of Matsuba and Kahaku. He has a nice redish head and orange on his back with the dark scales of the matsuba.<br \/>\nHe also has orange on his fins but the tips are white. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Atlanta Koi Club Koi auction today. I placed bids on several fish but the prices were a bit higher than my planned budget. The prices compared to retail were very good. I will definitely go back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2011\/04\/first-2-koi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pond-budget","category-pond-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}