{"id":2052,"date":"2004-12-21T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T17:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/21\/\/"},"modified":"2004-12-21T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T17:33:25","slug":"2052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/2052\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreverpurple.com\/blog\/crab_blog.php\" rel=\"external\"><strong>HERMIT CRAB BLOG<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>&#8220;Hermies for Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/hermit-crab.jpg\" alt=\"hermit crab\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Hermit crabs are the ultimate impulse purchase pet and Christmas time is no exception. Hermit crabs are not the &#8216;easy, carefree&#8217; pets they are promoted to be by pet stores. Its not as simple as buying a plastic box and putting the crab it in. In fact, hermit crabs require just as much, if not more, care than your average small pet. Before you pick up a hermit crabs for Christmas morning please consider the following:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/hermit-crab-2.jpg\" alt=\"hermit crab\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Land hermit crabs can live a minimum of 30 years in captivity. This is the age of the oldest pair in captivity that I know of, and they are still going strong. Hermit crabs are believed to live up to 70 years in the wild. Are you prepared to own and care for this &#8216;throw away pet&#8217; for that length of time? Will your child be willing to care for this pet into adulthood?&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERMIT CRAB BLOG&#8220;Hermies for Christmas Hermit crabs are the ultimate impulse purchase pet and Christmas time is no exception. Hermit crabs are not the &#8216;easy, carefree&#8217; pets they are promoted to be by pet stores. Its not as simple as buying a plastic box and putting the crab it in. In fact, hermit crabs require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}