{"id":1556,"date":"2014-04-23T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:34:35","slug":"why-i-do-not-go-in-the-water-hagfish-slime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/23\/why-i-do-not-go-in-the-water-hagfish-slime\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Do Not Go in the Water: Hagfish Slime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2014\/04\/22\/hagfish-slime-animals-science-weird-fish\/\"><img src='https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pacific-hagfish-slime-01-120x68.jpg' alt='The Pacific hagfish (Slimius godnowayii)' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Really cool story on <a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2014\/04\/22\/hagfish-slime-animals-science-weird-fish\/\">National Geographic<\/a> by a really cool writer I&#8217;m following on twitter now <a href=\"http:\/\/readwriterachel.com\/\">Rachel Kaufman<\/a> (@rkaufman).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have trouble being on the same planet with these creatures, let alone go into the ocean with them.\u00c2\u00a0 As Rachel puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Many people are disgusted by the hagfish. These squirmy,\u00c2\u00a0eel-looking creatures are known primarily for two repellent traits: eating dying animals from the inside out, and oozing four cups of slime in a fraction of a second.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By Crom&#8217;s holy indifference!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recently, scientists at the University of Guelph <a href=\"http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/content\/217\/8\/1263.abstract\">published a study<\/a> that delves into the amazing&#8211;and cringingly awful&#8211;properties hagfish slime. Apparently, the slime is full of these long (6 inches!) sticky protein threads, which are good for clogging up a predator&#8217;s gills and happen to be as light and strong as spider silk.<\/p>\n<p>If, as Rachel posits, this thread could one day lead to clothing, I would cry. A lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is Cronenberg-level body horror at its worse. Cools story, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really cool story on National Geographic by a really cool writer I&#8217;m following on twitter now Rachel Kaufman (@rkaufman). I have trouble being on the same planet with these creatures, let alone go into the ocean with them.\u00c2\u00a0 As Rachel puts it: Many people are disgusted by the hagfish. These squirmy,\u00c2\u00a0eel-looking creatures are known primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-p6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}