{"id":1524,"date":"2015-09-11T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1849538"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:00:38","slug":"absurd-creatures-meet-the-wonderful-bug-thats-as-big-as-a-gerbil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2015\/09\/11\/absurd-creatures-meet-the-wonderful-bug-thats-as-big-as-a-gerbil\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Creatures: Meet the Wonderful Bug That\u2019s as Big as a Gerbil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/42-33047306-660x444.jpg\" alt=\"Absurd Creatures: Meet the Wonderful Bug That&#8217;s as Big as a Gerbil\" \/><\/div><p>The heaviest confirmed insect is the giant weta, a titanic species from New Zealand. But why get so big? Why not get bigger?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/absurd-creatures-meet-the-weta\/\">Absurd Creatures: Meet the Wonderful Bug That&#8217;s as Big as a Gerbil<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/42-33047306-660x444.jpg\" alt=\"Absurd Creatures: Meet the Wonderful Bug That&rsquo;s as Big as a Gerbil\"><\/div>\n<p>The heaviest confirmed insect is the giant weta, a titanic species from New Zealand. But why get so big? Why not get bigger?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/absurd-creatures-meet-the-weta\/\">Absurd Creatures: Meet the Wonderful Bug That&rsquo;s as Big as a Gerbil<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,194,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absurd-creature-of-the-week","category-absurd-creatures","category-biology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"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=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}