{"id":1752,"date":"2009-09-12T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T00:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/09\/12\/friday_night_horror\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T00:10:16","slug":"friday_night_horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/09\/12\/friday_night_horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this freak of nature on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/09\/isnt_nature_beautiful.php\">PZ Myers&#8217; Pharyngula blog<\/a>, and since I don&#8217;t want to be the only person with nightmares, I thought I&#8217;d share the photo.<br \/>\n(beyond the jump so as to protect the squeamish)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/19344191@N00\/3910370741\/\" title=\"isopod by wonder_brit, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3440\/3910370741_3e78058860.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"470\" alt=\"isopod\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe nasty little isopod beastie <em>eats the fish&#8217;s tongue<\/em>. And then <em>replaces<\/em> it &#8211; with <em>itself<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>GROSS!!!!!<\/strong><br \/>\nApparently the fish does perfectly well with its replacement tongue. I, on the other hand, will need at least four beers to recover from this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this freak of nature on PZ Myers&#8217; Pharyngula blog, and since I don&#8217;t want to be the only person with nightmares, I thought I&#8217;d share the photo. (beyond the jump so as to protect the squeamish)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}