{"id":961,"date":"2011-05-10T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T01:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=961"},"modified":"2011-05-10T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T01:53:34","slug":"zombie-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Zombie ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/14064-zombie-ant-fungus-parasite.html\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Research in a Thai rain forest has shown the fungi, a species of Ophiocordyceps, forces an infected ant to wander drunkenly over the forest&#8217;s low leaves before clamping its jaws around the main vein on the underside of a leaf in an ant zombie graveyard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How pleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article: Research in a Thai rain forest has shown the fungi, a species of Ophiocordyceps, forces an infected ant to wander drunkenly over the forest&#8217;s low leaves before clamping its jaws around the main vein on the underside of a leaf in an ant zombie graveyard. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-fv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}