{"id":116,"date":"2024-08-20T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/a-clam-made-of-light-and-all-the-while-afraid-of-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T06:09:07","slug":"a-clam-made-of-light-and-all-the-while-afraid-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/a-clam-made-of-light-and-all-the-while-afraid-of-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"A clam: made of light and all the while afraid of the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This very heavy animal is made of almost weightless light: the clam gives light to the zooxanthellae, which produce sugars and proteins, which the clam uses to make its calcium carbonate shell. Light does have weight: a box of light is heavier than an empty box. Darkness weighs nothing. And the clam is afraid of the dark.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/a-clam-made-of-light-and-all-the-while-afraid-of-the-dark\">www.theguardian.com\/environment\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/a-clam-made-of-light-and-all-the-while-afraid-of-the-dark<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This very heavy animal is made of almost weightless light: the clam gives light to the zooxanthellae, which produce sugars and proteins, which the clam uses to make its calcium carbonate shell. Light does have weight: a box of light is heavier than an empty box. Darkness weighs nothing. And the clam is afraid of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}