{"id":1758,"date":"2010-05-05T16:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2012-01-01T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:29:19","slug":"tulip-egg-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/tulip-egg-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Conch Egg Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Horse conch shell egg case\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tulip-shell-egg-case.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1759\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/tulip-egg-case\/tulip-shell-egg-case\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tulip-shell-egg-case.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1273082275&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Horse conch shell egg case\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Horse conch shell egg case&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Horse conch shell egg case&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tulip-shell-egg-case-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1759  aligncenter\" title=\"Horse conch shell egg case\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tulip-shell-egg-case-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Horse conch shell egg case\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tulip-shell-egg-case-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tulip-shell-egg-case-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We normally see lots of <a title=\"whelk egg case\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?s=whelk+egg+\" target=\"_blank\">WHELK EGG CASES <\/a> on most of the beaches but we only see bits and pieces of HORSE CONCH EGG CASES and not even every day. This one is so huge I had to take a picture to show you that inside each of those little folds (that look like smooshed waffle ice cream cones) are our treasured HORSIE shells. I found this today at the lighthouse. The sky is so blue and the water is every shade of aqua&#8230;&#8230;and there are shell piles building up. Look!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Whelk in a pile of shells at the lighthouse\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-Sanibel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1760\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/tulip-egg-case\/whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-sanibel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-Sanibel.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3577,2683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1273083028&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Whelk in a pile of shells on Sanibel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Whelk in a pile of shells at the lighthouse&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-Sanibel-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1760  aligncenter\" title=\"Whelk in a pile of shells on Sanibel\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-Sanibel-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Whelk in a pile of shells at the lighthouse\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-Sanibel-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Whelk-in-a-pile-of-shells-on-Sanibel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We normally see lots of WHELK EGG CASES on most of the beaches but we only see bits and pieces of HORSE CONCH EGG CASES and not even every day. This one is so huge I had to take a picture to show you that inside each of those little folds (that look like smooshed [&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":[1126,29,8,2007],"tags":[30,229,228,226,227],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-conch-egg-casing","category-lighthouse","category-sanibel","category-whelk","tag-sanibel-lighthouse","tag-shell-pile","tag-tulip-shell","tag-tulip-shell-egg-case","tag-whelk-egg-case","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-sm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7686,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}