{"id":49,"date":"2026-10-01T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/oysters-opening-keeping-and-the-months-with-an-r\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:49:56","slug":"oysters-opening-keeping-and-the-months-with-an-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/oysters-opening-keeping-and-the-months-with-an-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Oysters: opening, keeping and the months with an R"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A good oyster is closed, heavy for its size and smells of the sea. Keep it cupped side down in the fridge under a damp cloth, never in water.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To open, wrap your hand in a folded tea towel, push the knife into the hinge and twist. Slide the blade under the top shell to cut the muscle.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rock oysters are fine all year; the old rule about months with an R is about native oysters, which spawn in summer.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to tell a good oyster, keep it alive until dinner and open it without a trip to hospital (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shellfish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-seafood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}