{"id":1159,"date":"2012-01-05T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2012-01-05T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T21:29:52","slug":"why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-yeti-crabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-yeti-crabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t go in the water: Yeti Crabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/biodiversity\/lost-world-of-creatures-at-antarctic-deep-sea-vents\">recent animal discoveries in the Antarctic Ocean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great reason why I won&#8217;t be sleeping well tonight: Yeti crabs. They look like giant, slightly fuzzy, ticks. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/en.esimg.org\/upl\/2012\/01\/yeticrabs2.jpg\" alt=\"Yeti Crabs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The little octopus is just <em>adorable<\/em>, though, in an entirely Cthulhuesque way. <\/p>\n<p>Also, why I read EarthSky.org: they&#8217;re good about linking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosbiology.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001232\">to published sources<\/a>. Handy! Considerate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great article on recent animal discoveries in the Antarctic Ocean. Here&#8217;s a great reason why I won&#8217;t be sleeping well tonight: Yeti crabs. They look like giant, slightly fuzzy, ticks. The little octopus is just adorable, though, in an entirely Cthulhuesque way. Also, why I read EarthSky.org: they&#8217;re good about linking to published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,5,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","category-dumb-thoughts","category-science-fandom","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-iH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}