{"id":1522,"date":"2010-04-09T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2011-08-30T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:18:52","slug":"small-shells-equals-big-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/small-shells-equals-big-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Treasures, Big Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1524\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Small-Seashells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1524\" data-attachment-id=\"1524\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/small-shells-equals-big-pleasure\/mini-sanibel-island-seashells\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Small-Seashells.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2816,2112\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1270805152&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0058513750731422&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mini Sanibel Island Seashells&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mini Sanibel Island Seashells\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mini Sanibel Island Seashells&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Small-Seashells-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1524 \" title=\"Mini Sanibel Island Seashells\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Small-Seashells-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Small-Seashells-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Small-Seashells-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lace murex, turban, button, banded tulip, wentletrap, drill, coquina, and more<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How could anybody not think that the smaller shells aren&#8217;t fun to collect too? Look at these cuties! You can look them up on the<strong><a title=\"Seashell Identification\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/seashell-identification\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Seashell Identification Guide<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to find the names of each one. The only ones you won&#8217;t find probably are the LEOPARD CRAB shells (top middle) since they aren&#8217;t mullosks&#8230;they are shells of a crab&#8230;but they sure are pretty. You can always<em> <\/em>find treasures on Sanibel and Captiva if you take your time and look at how beautiful the shells are that you find&#8230;.even if they are small.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1526\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shellers-04-910.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526\" data-attachment-id=\"1526\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/small-shells-equals-big-pleasure\/shelling-on-sanibel-island-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shellers-04-910.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2112,2816\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1270802527&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0024606299212598&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Shelling on Sanibel Island&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Justin and Adria (Texas)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Justin and Adria (Texas)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shellers-04-910-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1526 \" title=\"Justin and Adria (Texas)\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shellers-04-910-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shellers-04-910-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shellers-04-910-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin and Adria (Texas)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I enjoyed meeting Justin and Adria from Texas. It looks like she&#8217;s holding an empty bucket but that&#8217;s only because all of those smaller shells that she was finding slid down out of the shot. \u00a0I asked her if she was finding anything good and she said &#8220;All of these shells are fantastic! We don&#8217;t have anything like this at home.&#8221; \u00a0She and Justin were tickled with their tiny treasures and the time they get to spend on Sanibel while visiting family every year. \u00a0Some times it&#8217;s just the simple pleasures that are the best. Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could anybody not think that the smaller shells aren&#8217;t fun to collect too? Look at these cuties! You can look them up on the Seashell Identification Guide\u00a0to find the names of each one. The only ones you won&#8217;t find probably are the LEOPARD CRAB shells (top middle) since they aren&#8217;t mullosks&#8230;they are shells of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184,45,100,101,29,8],"tags":[135,2070,182,183],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-button","category-coquina","category-crabs","category-leopard","category-lighthouse","category-sanibel","tag-bailey-matthews-shell-museum","tag-coquina","tag-leopard-crab","tag-shell-museum","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-oy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}