{"id":4665,"date":"2015-02-23T22:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2015-02-23T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:48:48","slug":"hermit-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"Hermit Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered hermit crabs many years ago on the muddy tidal flats around Darwin well before I began diving.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve learned they are everywhere and more than happy to take residence in someone else&#8217;s abandoned home.<\/p>\n<p>This Hermit Crab (<em>Paguristes frontalis<\/em>) at Port Noarlunga is both common and comical. This one&#8217;s shell is fitting perfectly so not so many stumbles to laugh at but if you find a hermit crab that has taken up residence in some palatial new oversized shell it is hilarious watching the ensuing antics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Hermit Crab&#8217; 1\/100 f\/20 ISO320 100mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered hermit crabs many years ago on the muddy tidal flats around Darwin well before I began diving. Since then I&#8217;ve learned they are everywhere and more than happy to take residence in someone else&#8217;s abandoned home. This Hermit Crab (Paguristes frontalis) at Port Noarlunga is both common and comical. This one&#8217;s shell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,282,263,113,281,34,106,70,283,275,280,112,88,284,197],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-crab","tag-creatures","tag-diving","tag-hermit","tag-jetty","tag-night","tag-ocean","tag-paguristesfrontalis","tag-portnoarlunga","tag-ptnoarlunga","tag-scuba","tag-sea","tag-shell","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}