{"id":5538,"date":"2016-10-01T20:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2016-10-01T20:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:19:35","slug":"a-very-straight-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/01\/a-very-straight-line\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Straight Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em><strong>60 Seconds<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130913-100-60-seconds\/\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (14 September 2016):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A newly identified parasitic worm has been named in honour of US president Barack Obama. The thread-like blood fluke, called <i>Baracktrema obamai<\/i>, infects freshwater turtles. Its discoverers say they admire Obama, and that, to the people that study them, parasites are beautiful (<i>Journal of Parasitology<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/bqfk\">doi.org\/bqfk<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 60 Seconds column of NewScientist (14 September 2016): A newly identified parasitic worm has been named in honour of US president Barack Obama. The thread-like blood fluke, called Baracktrema obamai, infects freshwater turtles. Its discoverers say they admire Obama, and that, to the people that study them, parasites \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/01\/a-very-straight-line\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-5538","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\/5538","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=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}