{"id":868,"date":"2013-12-04T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/868-day-704-fruit-of-the-sea.html"},"modified":"2013-12-10T00:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:54:29","slug":"day-704-fruit-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/868-day-704-fruit-of-the-sea.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 704, Fruit of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1292 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/704-IMG_6839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe expression &#8216;fruit of the sea&#8217; is usually a term used for the animals of the ocean such fishes, crustaceans and molluscs. There are in fact &#8216;real&#8217; fruits of the ocean and the sea grass meadows of the coastal shallows are one place you can find them.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe predominant seagrass of the Rapid Bay area is <em>Posidonia sinuosa<\/em>, and now with the warming water they are beginning to fruit.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe fruit of <em>Posidonia sinuosa<\/em> is actually quite pleasant to eat although I have never eaten enough of them to comment on their toxicity. Once you peel back the outer green husk there is a firmer green nut-like body inside which is not at all salty as might be expected and tastes something like a cross between a pumpkin seed and a pine nut.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFruit from <em>Posidonia sinuos<\/em> might not be the beginning of a new food industry but seagrass meadows play an incredibly important role in providing our &#8216;fruit of the sea&#8217; as a nursery habitat for many important commercial fish species.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 704, Fruit of the Sea&#8217;, 1\/100 f\/5.0 ISO100  15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; The expression &#8216;fruit of the sea&#8217; is usually a term used for the animals of the ocean such fishes, crustaceans and molluscs. There are in fact &#8216;real&#8217; fruits of the ocean and the sea grass meadows of the coastal shallows are one place you can find them. The predominant seagrass of &#8230; <a title=\"Day 704, Fruit of the Sea\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/868-day-704-fruit-of-the-sea.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 704, Fruit of the Sea\">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-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}