{"id":1068,"date":"2015-09-05T17:57:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2015-09-05T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:57:44","slug":"conus-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Conus Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Conus-assembled-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Conus-assembled-4-1-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Conus assembled  4 (1)\" width=\"458\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Conus-assembled-4-1-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Conus-assembled-4-1-1024x926.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Conus-assembled-4-1-624x564.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Conus<\/b><\/i> is a large <a title=\"Genus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genus<\/a> of small to large <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Predatory\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predatory\">predatory<\/a> <a title=\"Sea snail\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_snail\">sea snails<\/a>, <a title=\"Marine (ocean)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marine_(ocean)\">marine<\/a> <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Gastropod\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gastropod\">gastropod<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Mollusc\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mollusc\">molluscs<\/a>, with the common names of <i>cone snails<\/i>, <i>cone shells<\/i> or <i>cones<\/i>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conus\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conus<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>They are poisonous so they need careful handling. In fact they are best not handled. They are found mostly in tropical waters near coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p>The shape and patterns inspired me to design and build this paper model. I feel like I am emulating the work of the Designer (but with far inferior intellect and ability).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More images and information<\/strong><\/em> on assembly are available in the gallery at <a title=\"Conus Shell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?page_id=1081\">http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?page_id=1081<\/a>.\u00a0<em><strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I hope to continue adding posts and pages to the galleries once a month so please look forward to the next one on 3rd\u00a0October.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Conus is a large genus of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod\u00a0molluscs, with the common names of cone snails, cone shells or cones. (Wikipedia\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conus) They are poisonous so they need careful handling. In fact they are best not handled. They are found mostly in tropical waters near coral reefs. The shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,16,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}