{"id":1160,"date":"2015-08-28T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1841169"},"modified":"2015-08-28T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:00:54","slug":"absurd-creature-of-the-week-um-this-leech-feeds-on-hippo-rectums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2015\/08\/28\/absurd-creature-of-the-week-um-this-leech-feeds-on-hippo-rectums\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Creature of the Week: Um, This Leech Feeds on Hippo Rectums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GettyImages-485207075-660x430.jpg\" alt=\"Absurd Creature of the Week: Um, This Leech Feeds on Hippo Rectums\" \/><\/div><p>The year was 2003, and Mark Siddall was in South Africa a-hunting the elusive hippo rectum leech. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/08\/absurd-creature-of-the-week-hippo-butt-leech-placobdelloides-jaegerskioeldi\/\">Absurd Creature of the Week: Um, This Leech Feeds on Hippo Rectums<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year was 2003, and Mark Siddall was in South Africa a-hunting the elusive hippo rectum leech.<br \/>\nThe post Absurd Creature of the Week: Um, This Leech Feeds on Hippo Rectums appeared first on WIRED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,400,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absurd-creature-of-the-week","category-biology","category-leech","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}