{"id":2115,"date":"2022-06-10T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2115-salty-blue-pin-cushion.html"},"modified":"2022-06-10T02:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:04:00","slug":"salty-blue-pin-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2115-salty-blue-pin-cushion.html","title":{"rendered":"Salty Blue Pin Cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2776 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1909-_MG_0893-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey say of marine life that if you can\u2019t eat it or it\u2019s got no practical use then it will never get anything other than a scientific name. Well I have a third reason, being spiked by a sea urchin and needing something pronounceable to swear at!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe long-spine urchin, Centrostephanus tenuispinus, is actually quite beautiful for something you\u2019d take great pains not to sit on, or experience great pains if you did!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUrchin spines really are no fun. A painful spiking can result from carelessly nestling into a bit of reef to coax out a crayfish or photograph a nudibranch. If it\u2019s a clean stab a good flushing of vinegar will usually bring relief after the initial pain. If it\u2019s snapped off inside it needs to come out quickly!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBest advice for divers or waders is, \u2026 don\u2019t sit on salty blue pincushions!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Rapidbayjetty #rapidbay #seaurchin #Centrostephanustenuispinus #scuba #diving #urchin<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say of marine life that if you can\u2019t eat it or it\u2019s got no practical use then it will never get anything other than a scientific name. Well I have a third reason, being spiked by a sea urchin and needing something pronounceable to swear at! The long-spine urchin, Centrostephanus tenuispinus, is actually quite &#8230; <a title=\"Salty Blue Pin Cushion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2115-salty-blue-pin-cushion.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Salty Blue Pin Cushion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}