{"id":532,"date":"2015-08-07T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1821244"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:00:07","slug":"absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-ant-that-blasts-itself-out-of-danger-with-its-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2015\/08\/07\/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-ant-that-blasts-itself-out-of-danger-with-its-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Creature of the Week: The Ant That Blasts Itself Out of Danger With Its Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/E4647E-660x439.jpg\" alt=\"Absurd Creature of the Week: The Ant That Blasts Itself Out of Danger With Its Face\" \/><\/div><p>Trap-jaw ants have remarkable mandibles, huge things that cock back and deploy to send attackers tumbling...or to blast the ant itself out of danger.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/08\/absurd-creature-of-the-week-trap-jaw-ant\/\">Absurd Creature of the Week: The Ant That Blasts Itself Out of Danger With Its Face<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trap-jaw ants have remarkable mandibles, huge things that cock back and deploy to send attackers tumbling&#8230;or to blast the ant itself out of danger.<br \/>\nThe post Absurd Creature of the Week: The Ant That Blasts Itself Out of Danger With Its Face appeared &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,196,4,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absurd-creature-of-the-week","category-antlion","category-science","category-trap-jaw-ant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}