{"id":4918,"date":"2013-12-16T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2013-12-19T06:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T11:28:19","slug":"sand-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4918","title":{"rendered":"Sand Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4920\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4920\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Sand Dollar\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/img_20131216_073649.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sand Dollar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1982 I worked as a contractor at the National Weather Service, contributing in a small way to the forecasting of storm surges due to hurricanes. I was in Texas for a couple weeks surveying the coast in support of our forecast model for a few large sections of the coast, basically looking for situations where the coastal terrain was significantly different to what was recorded on topographic maps. We were on a barrier island at one point and came across a huge number of sand dollars, all washed up on the beach. I collected a few and they have been in a ceramic jar ever since. This is the sand dollar at the top of that jar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1982 I worked as a contractor at the National Weather Service, contributing in a small way to the forecasting of storm surges due to hurricanes. I was in Texas for a couple weeks surveying the coast in support of our forecast model for a few large sections of the coast, basically looking for situations &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}