{"id":1236,"date":"2016-06-24T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:20:23","slug":"preserving-a-giant-squid-at-the-museum-of-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Preserving a Giant Squid at The Museum of Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Ablett, Curator of Mollusks for the Natural History Museum in London, discusses how the museum received an intact giant squid specimen measuring over 8 meters in length. Ablett goes on to explain\u00a0the challenges of preserving such a large specimen, and some of the sights and smells associated with the giant squid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Giant squid: from the deep sea to display | Natural History Museum\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YgvfF05BS4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgvfF05BS4Y\" target=\"_blank\">View article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Ablett, Curator of Mollusks for the Natural History Museum in London, discusses how the museum received an intact giant squid specimen measuring over 8 meters in length. Ablett goes on to explain\u00a0the challenges of preserving such a large specimen, and some of the sights and smells associated with the giant squid. &nbsp; View article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[42,40,45,44,43,41,39],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceans","category-preservation","tag-creature","tag-giant","tag-hirst","tag-history","tag-museum","tag-sea","tag-squid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}