{"id":2391,"date":"2013-09-25T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2013-09-25T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:30:04","slug":"how-to-terraform-a-squid-phenomena-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/how-to-terraform-a-squid-phenomena-not-exactly-rocket-science\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Terraform A Squid \u2013 Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Too cool. -egg]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/08\/19\/how-to-terraform-a-squid\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hawaiian-bobtail-squid.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bacterium Vibrio fischeri is a squid terraformer. Although it can live independently in seawater, it also colonises the body of the adorable Hawaiian bobtail squid. The squid nourishes the bacteria with nutrients and the bacteria, in turn, act as an invisibility cloak. They produce a dim light that matches the moonlight shining down from above, masking the squid\u2019s silhouette from predators watching from below. With its light-emitting microbes, the squid becomes less visible.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/08\/19\/how-to-terraform-a-squid\/\">How To Terraform A Squid \u2013 Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Too cool. -egg] The bacterium Vibrio fischeri is a squid terraformer. Although it can live independently in seawater, it also colonises the body of the adorable Hawaiian bobtail squid. The squid nourishes the bacteria with nutrients and the bacteria, in turn, act as an invisibility cloak. They produce a dim light that matches the moonlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}