{"id":27439,"date":"2020-01-28T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2020-01-28T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:57:11","slug":"what-a-knotty-problem-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/what-a-knotty-problem-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Knotty Problem!, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/25\/what-a-knotty-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unique physiology of the hagfish<\/a>, a reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four hearts sounds better than one. If the one you have fails, you&#8217;re dead, unlike say if one kidney, or one lung or one eyeball fails. Redundancy is good. There&#8217;s clearly no intelligent design when one discovers what a pile of kludges the human body is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I agree that four hearts are going to be better than one &#8211; there will certainly be a resource cost, as well as possible problems with vascular coordination. I assume they have four hearts due to their environment (what else?!), which is 250m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the unique physiology of the hagfish, a reader writes: Four hearts sounds better than one. If the one you have fails, you&#8217;re dead, unlike say if one kidney, or one lung or one eyeball fails. Redundancy is good. There&#8217;s clearly no intelligent design when one discovers what a pile \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/what-a-knotty-problem-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27468,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions\/27468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}