{"id":9836,"date":"2012-03-14T23:17:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=9836"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:42:39","slug":"seashell-cowboy-helps-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/seashell-cowboy-helps-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Seashell Cowboy Helps Save The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"garrett shell museum volunteer\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9837\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/seashell-cowboy-helps-save-the-planet\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,472\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"garrett shell museum volunteer\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;garrett shell museum volunteer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9837 aligncenter\" title=\"garrett shell museum volunteer\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"garrett shell museum volunteer\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garrett is a true seashell lover. He is learning so much about seashells because he loves how beautiful they are and is fascinated about how live shells are a vital part of our ecosystem. When he visits Sanibel from his home town in Georgia, he likes to volunteer at the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum to help with anything they need. He just wants to be close to the shells and to learn more. I feel fortunate to have met him at Blind Pass to see his passion for learning\u00a0how seashells are helping save the planet.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lU3q_tfGc3M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While doing more online research on the subject of &#8220;ameobicytes&#8221; on seashells, I didn&#8217;t find very much information but this great article from the Discovery Channel popped up! Click on this&#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2009\/04\/27\/shells-metals-water.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discovery Channel seashell article<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrett is a true seashell lover. He is learning so much about seashells because he loves how beautiful they are and is fascinated about how live shells are a vital part of our ecosystem. When he visits Sanibel from his home town in Georgia, he likes to volunteer at the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9837,"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":[208],"tags":[1614,1616,1615],"class_list":["post-9836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-how-seashells-get-their-color-2","tag-natural-resource-mollusks","tag-seashells-in-ecosystem","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/garrett-shell-museum-volunteer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-2yE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836","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=9836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28685,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions\/28685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}