{"id":260,"date":"2007-02-23T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T02:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=260"},"modified":"2007-02-23T21:52:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T02:52:33","slug":"worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/worms\/","title":{"rendered":"Worms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI read <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/loom\/2007\/02\/19\/build_me_a_tapeworm.php\">an engrossing (and somewhat gross) article about tapeworms<\/a> the other day, and it was better written and more interesting than some of the fiction works I&rsquo;ve read recently. Chock-full of bizarre and baffling facts about the evolution and physiology of tapeworms, flatworms and other related creatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDid you know that humans are host to 54 species of tapeworm, and they can get up to 18 metres long?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd how about this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHere&rsquo;s a digression but a good one: some monogeneans give birth to offspring without releasing them from their bodies. Their offspring mature inside them and give birth as well. Like a hideous Russian doll, a monogenean may contain twenty generations of descendents inside its body! [&ldquo;Kids, it&rsquo;s time you found a place of your own&#8230;&rdquo;]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nStudying these worms is probably a very interesting job, but it doesn&rsquo;t make for good conversation fodder. Imagine yourself at a dinner party, and someone asking what you work with&#8230; On the other hand, it could well be a hit topic with teenagers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an engrossing (and somewhat gross) article about tapeworms the other day, and it was better written and more interesting than some of the fiction works I&rsquo;ve read recently. Chock-full of bizarre and baffling facts about the evolution and physiology of tapeworms, flatworms and other related creatures. Did you know that humans are host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}