{"id":829,"date":"2015-04-25T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T19:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=829"},"modified":"2015-04-25T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T19:21:20","slug":"the-black-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/25\/the-black-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought the Black Death was a plague of the past.\u00a0 Not so, at least for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630162.800-plague-hits-prairie-dogs-and-changes-us-ecosystems.html#\" target=\"_blank\">North American Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs<\/a> (paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24948-black-death-may-have-scuppered-roman-empire.html\">plague bacteria, <i>Yersinia pestis<\/i><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"artxicon\" title=\"Contains video content\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscientist.com\/img\/icon\/artx_video.gif?w=800\" alt=\"Movie Camera\" \/>, now rarely infects people in North America, it&#8217;s been responsible for the deaths of many black-tailed prairie dogs. This is a problem for the grasslands, where many other species rely on prairie dogs to survive. Predators eat them, animals make homes in their burrows and grass growth is shaped by them (<i>Conservation Biology<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/3cj\">doi.org\/3cj<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> 11 April 2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought the Black Death was a plague of the past.\u00a0 Not so, at least for North American Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs (paywall): Though the plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, now rarely infects people in North America, it&#8217;s been responsible for the deaths of many black-tailed prairie dogs. This is a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/25\/the-black-death\/\"> 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-829","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\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}