{"id":552,"date":"2014-02-22T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2014-02-22T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T08:45:08","slug":"huge-record-breaking-oyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/world-of-pearls\/huge-record-breaking-oyster\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge record breaking oyster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not strictly a pearl matter since it isn&#8217;t a pearl producing oyster but we can still note this huge record breaking oyster which is reckoned to be possibly as old as 20 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_553\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oyster-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-553\" alt=\"world record oyster\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oyster-2-300x159.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oyster-2-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/oyster-2.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">world record oyster<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The oyster is a Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas), found in the Wadden Sea, off southeastern\u00a0Denmark and part of the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>It is still alive and growing in a sea centre. It is 35cm and 11cm wide. It\u2019s attached to five other oysters, so the total weight is 1.62kg<\/p>\n<p>It will now live out a comfortable and cosseted retirement in the sea life centre in Denmark, fed on plankton and algae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not strictly a pearl matter since it isn&#8217;t a pearl producing oyster but we can still note this huge record breaking oyster which is reckoned to be possibly as old as 20 years. The oyster is a Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas), found in the Wadden Sea, off southeastern\u00a0Denmark and part of the North Sea. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[146,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}