{"id":7516,"date":"2012-07-16T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T04:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:53:46","slug":"claw-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=7516","title":{"rendered":"Claw shrimp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I did not know until now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304388004577529080951019546.html?grcc=grdt&amp;mod=WSJ_hps_sections_news\">There is a lobster glut.<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304388004577529080951019546.html?grcc=grdt&amp;mod=WSJ_hps_sections_news\">Prices at the dock have fallen to as low as $1.25 a pound in some areas\u2014roughly 70% below normal and a nearly 30-year-low for this time of year, according to fishermen, researchers and officials. The reason: an unseasonably warm winter created a supply glut throughout the Atlantic lobster fishery.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>The lobster glut is unlikely to create lower prices outside of the &#8220;lobster belt&#8221;:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304388004577529080951019546.html?grcc=grdt&amp;mod=WSJ_hps_sections_news\">The Maine lobsters that currently are in season can&#8217;t be shipped long distances due to their soft shells, and retailers have other fixed costs that limit big price drops.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Darn it. I&#8217;m not planning a trip to New England anytime soon, so there goes my chance to make a dent in the glut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: <a href=\"http:\/\/thepricehike.com\/post\/27343413016\/the-wall-street-journal-explains-why-were-paying\">The Price Hike<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2002\/06\/19\/\">Penny Arcade<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I did not know until now: There is a lobster glut. Prices at the dock have fallen to as low as $1.25 a pound in some areas\u2014roughly 70% below normal and a nearly 30-year-low for this time of year, according to fishermen, researchers and officials. The reason: an unseasonably warm winter created a supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-food","category-lobsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}