{"id":3971,"date":"2015-12-04T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1940154"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T12:00:23","slug":"absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-octopus-that-does-incredible-impressions-of-fish-and-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2015\/12\/04\/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-octopus-that-does-incredible-impressions-of-fish-and-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Creature of the Week: The Octopus That Does Incredible Impressions of Fish and Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MS3-660x487.jpg\" alt=\"Absurd Creature of the Week: The Octopus That Does Incredible Impressions of Fish and Snakes\" \/><\/div><p>True to its name, the mimic octopus impersonates a variety of other animals on the fly, morphing from an octopus to a banded sole to a lionfish to a sea snake.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/12\/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-octopus-that-does-incredible-impressions-of-fish-and-snakes\/\">Absurd Creature of the Week: The Octopus That Does Incredible Impressions of Fish and Snakes<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True to its name, the mimic octopus impersonates a variety of other animals on the fly, morphing from an octopus to a banded sole to a lionfish to a sea snake.<br \/>\nThe post Absurd Creature of the Week: The Octopus That Does Incredible Impressions of Fish a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,5,975,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absurd-creature-of-the-week","category-biology","category-gallery","category-mimic-octopus","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971"}],"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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}