{"id":2887,"date":"2008-08-24T21:41:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T01:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2008-08-24T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T01:41:39","slug":"the-hairy-clam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2887","title":{"rendered":"The Hairy Clam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don't know what this thing is actually called. Googling for \"hairy clam\" or \"bearded clam\" only brings up things I can't click on at work, and a \"spiny clam\" has a few really long thick spikes, not a covering of fine quasi-hair, like this guy. \"Furry clam\", \"Fuzzy clam\", \"Hirsute Clam\"... all turn up nothing but crotch shots on Google image search. Any <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malacology\">malacologists<\/a> out there? (Do I dare bother the great and powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/\">PZ Myers<\/a> ?)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bearded_clam_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D100, 105mm macro<\/div>\n<p>Our friend, Summer, found this on the beach at Topsail Island, NC, a fwe months ago. I carried it back to the condo and forgot to give it back. And now it's mine. Mine all mine.<\/p>\n<p>That little blob of white on the bottom is modeling clay - excellent stuff for holding small things in place while you photograph them. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bearded_clam_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D100, 105mm macro<\/div>\n<p>It's probably a totally common shell, but not being shell collectors, none of us had ever seen one before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bearded_clam_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D100, 105mm macro<\/div>\n<p>I shall call it the Hairy Clam.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it's some kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manandmollusc.net\/molluscan_food_files\/mollusc_files\/cockle.gif\">cockle<\/a>. \"Hairy Cockle\" works too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't know what this thing is actually called. Googling for \"hairy clam\" or \"bearded clam\" only brings up things I can't click on at work, and a \"spiny clam\" has a few really long thick spikes, not a covering of fine quasi-hair, like this guy. \"Furry clam\", \"Fuzzy clam\", \"Hirsute Clam\"... all turn up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}