{"id":4380,"date":"2017-05-25T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2017-05-25T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:42:34","slug":"pic-of-the-day-pen-shell-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=4380","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day &#8211; Pen Shell Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4379\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4379\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4379\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4379\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Judy G&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-M5MarkII&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1487853310&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9awoosh.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Penshell.shrimp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4379\" src=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp.jpg\" alt=\"pontonia mexicana\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp.jpg 800w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Penshell.shrimp-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a fairly unusual critter &#8211; so much so that it is not in my (older version) Humann &amp; Deloach Caribbean Reef Creature ID book. It is a Pen Shell Shrimp (Pontonia mexicana), about half an inch in length, which\u00a0I photographed in March in the Caribbean muck diving mecca that is St Vincent. I was pretty astonished at how many new (to me) critters we saw on that trip. More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fairly unusual critter &#8211; so much so that it is not in my (older version) Humann &amp; Deloach Caribbean Reef Creature ID book. It is a Pen Shell Shrimp (Pontonia mexicana), about half an inch in length, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=4380\">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":[],"categories":[62,13],"tags":[334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}