{"id":383,"date":"2013-12-13T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=383"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:07:17","slug":"edible-hard-clam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/12\/13\/edible-hard-clam\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Hard Clam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In America these are sometimes referred to as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercenaria_mercenaria\" title=\"Hard clam\" target=\"_blank\">quahog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are mostly used as food.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThey live in cold water so you can&#8217;t really keep them as pets in a tropical reef tank.<br \/>\nThe most likely place you will see them, unless you live near a cold ocean, is the sea food section of your grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>The specimens on the picture were sold for human consumption, alive to ensure freshness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_378\" style=\"width: 1162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Clams.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Clams.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of edible clams.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-378\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Clams.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Clams-300x168.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Clams-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edible Clams.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In America these are sometimes referred to as quahog. They are mostly used as food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,27,9,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}