{"id":410,"date":"2009-09-09T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:10:34","slug":"know-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Know bones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_1197.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_1197-199x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379279418570038114\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Out at Sandy Hook the other day, among the clamshells and bits of drift washed ashore, we found this part of a skull that I imagine belonged to a bird.  It&#8217;s a duck&#8217;s bill, I think. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really even sure which way is up, but the bottom (pictured, I think) has an interesting texture, almost coral-like, that I imagine has happened since the bill was attached to anything living.<\/p>\n<p>I checked in my <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bird-Tracks-Sign-American-Species\/dp\/0811726967\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1252467680&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Bird Tracks and Sign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> book, which has a section on skulls, but didn&#8217;t find anything to help me beyond the guess that it&#8217;s a duck&#8217;s bill.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know of a good online reference?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out at Sandy Hook the other day, among the clamshells and bits of drift washed ashore, we found this part of a skull that I imagine belonged to a bird. It&#8217;s a duck&#8217;s bill, I think. I&#8217;m not really even sure which way is up, but the bottom (pictured, I think) has an interesting texture, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Know bones?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}