{"id":2405,"date":"2015-08-22T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2015-08-22T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T19:03:57","slug":"sand-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/sand-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking the beach at Harstine Island last week, I saw many sand dollars. I have never seen so many unbroken! The ones I have found in the past have always been broken, and I have heard (but I can&#8217;t confirm) that they are eaten by starfish. We happen to have a starfish crisis right now&#8211;they are dying off in huge numbers. I wondered if that is why there are so many intact shells on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, sand dollars are white, but I came across some purple ones. While examining this one more closely, it appeared to be moving&#8211;almost like it was breathing&#8211;and I realized it must be alive. I don&#8217;t think I have ever seen this before, especially not the hypnotiic motion. (Forgive me for the quality of video. I have not practiced much doing video with my DSLR.)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/YdhZrnQl6qY<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-2405 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='2405' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-2405 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-2405 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='2405' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-2405 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-2405 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking the beach at Harstine Island last week, I saw many sand dollars. I have never seen so many unbroken! The ones I have found in the past have always been broken, and I have heard (but I can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/sand-dollars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}