{"id":12051,"date":"2025-05-09T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12051"},"modified":"2025-05-10T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:23:53","slug":"partially-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/05\/partially-buried\/","title":{"rendered":"Partially buried"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824-751x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824-751x1024.jpeg 751w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824-768x1047.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824-1127x1536.jpeg 1127w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824-1200x1636.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5824.jpeg 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Limulus polyphemus with Crepidula fornicata.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Still haven&#8217;t finished the writing I&#8217;ve been working on, so you&#8217;re stuck with another photograph. This is an Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (<em>Limulus polyphemus<\/em>) partially buried in the sand of the Long Pasture Audubon sanctuary on Cape Cod. There are Atlantic Slipper Shells (<em>Crepidula fornicata<\/em>) attached to the top of the shell. This may have been a molted exoskeleton, but it appeared to be a living horseshoe crab that had partially buried itself in the tidal flats at low tide; I decided not to poke at it to see if it was alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still haven&#8217;t finished the writing I&#8217;ve been working on, so you&#8217;re stuck with another photograph. This is an Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) partially buried in the sand of the Long Pasture Audubon sanctuary on Cape Cod. There are Atlantic Slipper Shells (Crepidula fornicata) attached to the top of the shell. This may have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/05\/partially-buried\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Partially buried&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-12051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-massachusetts","tag-arthropods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12053,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions\/12053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}