{"id":1751,"date":"2010-05-04T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2010-05-04T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T03:22:17","slug":"octo-mystery-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/octo-mystery-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Octo Mystery Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1752\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1752\" data-attachment-id=\"1752\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/octo-mystery-solved\/ocotpus-closeup-sanibel-island\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1930,1805\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-T77&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1270858247&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Ocotpus closeup Sanibel Island&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ocotpus closeup Sanibel Island\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Octopus on pen shell. Photo by Claudette&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island-1024x957.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1752 \" title=\"Ocotpus closeup Sanibel Island\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island-1024x957.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island-1024x957.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ocotpus-closeup-Sanibel-Island.jpg 1930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Octopus on pen shell. Photo by Claudette<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thank you, Claudette, for sending this new picture to us to solve the <a title=\"lion's paw\" href=\"http:\/\/shellmuseum.org\/shells\/shelldetails.cfm?id=194\" target=\"_blank\">LION&#8217;S PAW<\/a>&#8211; <a title=\"pen shell\" href=\"http:\/\/shellmuseum.org\/shells\/shelldetails.cfm?id=188\" target=\"_blank\">PEN SHELL<\/a> mystery on my previous post <a title=\"octopus in the dark\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/octopus-in-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Octopus in the Dark<\/a>. It&#8217;s a pen shell&#8230;not a lion&#8217;s paw (agree?).<\/p>\n<p>Claudette wrote \u00a0&#8220;We guess this Octopus to be about 16&#8243; from tip to tip! It stopped, posed and took off running I have about 4 pics of it! \u00a0The color change was amazing, going from dark (on the shell) to white&#8230; like the sand!&#8221; . Thank you for taking so many pictures of this guy so we could check this shell out a bit closer&#8230;.. although it kind of made me happy thinking it was a lion&#8217;s paw too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Claudette, for sending this new picture to us to solve the LION&#8217;S PAW&#8211; PEN SHELL mystery on my previous post Octopus in the Dark. It&#8217;s a pen shell&#8230;not a lion&#8217;s paw (agree?). Claudette wrote \u00a0&#8220;We guess this Octopus to be about 16&#8243; from tip to tip! It stopped, posed and took off running [&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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[224,2001],"tags":[2109,53,69,137,2082,223,71],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lions-paw","category-octopus","tag-lions-paw","tag-octopus","tag-pen-shell","tag-sanibel-island","tag-seashells","tag-shell","tag-shelling","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-sf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","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=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}