{"id":357,"date":"2005-09-06T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/hairworms-brainwash-grasshoppers-into-watery-suicide\/"},"modified":"2005-09-06T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T14:50:48","slug":"hairworms-brainwash-grasshoppers-into-watery-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/hairworms-brainwash-grasshoppers-into-watery-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairworms brainwash grasshoppers into watery suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/ringmaster.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"327\" alt=\"Ringmaster\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7927\">hairworm<\/a> is a parasite that thrives in grasshoppers and crickets. It somehow convinces its hosts into drowning themselves, leaving the worms in a better breeding position.<\/p>\n<p>Frickin sweet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hairworm is a parasite that thrives in grasshoppers and crickets. It somehow convinces its hosts into drowning themselves, leaving the worms in a better breeding position. Frickin sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}