{"id":5947,"date":"2011-02-23T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T18:08:20","slug":"seashell-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/seashell-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Seashell Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human homes and shells may have more in common than you think. Like most houses the structure of a shell is supported by interlocking bricks. Abalone seashells have two layers, the outside brittle part and an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/omg-facts\/taking-big-bites\/\"> extra strong<\/a> inner area that is made out of mother of pearl, called nacre. The nacre is made up of 95% chalk and is held together by 5% protein. This doesn\u2019t sound very tough but when it is laid out in a brick pattern it is able to protect creatures from anything that might pierce the shell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5911\" title=\"seashell\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sea_shell.jpg\" alt=\"seashell strength\" width=\"506\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sea_shell.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sea_shell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/11696-seashells-strength-interlocking-bricks.html<\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"..\/..\/games\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"..\/..\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what do bricks and seashells have in common? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/sea_shell-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"seashell strength\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[327,246],"class_list":{"0":"post-5947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-seashell","11":"tag-strength"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}