{"id":346,"date":"2010-12-19T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2010-12-16T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:47:15","slug":"random-walrus-fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2010\/12\/19\/random-walrus-fact-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Walrus Fact of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Modern walruses do not use their teeth to chew\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Molluscs\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Molluscs\">molluscs<\/a> like\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Sea otters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_otters\">sea otters<\/a> do. Instead, they hold a clam in their lips, and the vaulted palate allows them to use their tongue as a powerful piston to suck the soft parts right out of the clam shell. The shell is then dropped to the seafloor, never entering the oral cavity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the Wikipedia entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imagotaria\">&#8220;Imagotaria downsi&#8221;<\/a> an extinct species of \u00c2\u00a0walrus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern walruses do not use their teeth to chew\u00c2\u00a0molluscs like\u00c2\u00a0sea otters do. Instead, they hold a clam in their lips, and the vaulted palate allows them to use their tongue as a powerful piston to suck the soft parts right out of the clam shell. The shell is then dropped to the seafloor, never entering &#8230; <a title=\"Random Walrus Fact of the Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2010\/12\/19\/random-walrus-fact-of-the-day\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3peFG-5A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}