{"id":3774,"date":"2022-05-02T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/soft-shell-crab-anyone\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:50:40","slug":"soft-shell-crab-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/soft-shell-crab-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft-shell crab anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bb_header_text\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-itemwrap\" style=\"margin-bottom:40px\">\n<div style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0\">\n<h2 class=\"bb_itemtitle\">Soft-shell crab anyone?<\/h2>\n<p><small style=\"font-size:11px;font-style:italic\"> &#8211; divermag.com<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-post-content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-1651506638-1014743713.jpg\" alt=\"Soft-shell crab anyone?\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Words and Photography\u00a0by Brandon Cole<br \/>\nPhoto: Brandon Cole<br \/>\nClinging to a sponge-covered piling under Australia\u2019s Blairgowrie Pier, giant spider crabs hope to avoid being eaten by predators patrolling the sand below. Each winter, tens of thousands of crabs with legs spanning 16 inches (40cm) march from deep water into the shallows of Port Philip Bay south of Melbourne&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bb_footer_text\">\n\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft-shell crab anyone? &#8211; divermag.com Words and Photography\u00a0by Brandon Cole Photo: Brandon Cole Clinging to a sponge-covered piling under Australia\u2019s Blairgowrie Pier, giant spider crabs hope to avoid being eaten by predators patrolling the sand below. Each winter, tens of thousands of crabs with legs spanning 16 inches (40cm) march from deep water into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scubadiving.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}