{"id":718512,"date":"2010-04-16T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:21:09","slug":"the-latest-leech-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/718512","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Leech | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010057\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/04\/14\/pocket-science-&#x002013;-t-rex-the-nose-loving-tyrant-leech-king-why-losers-ejaculate-more-and-how-cuttlefish-could-&#x00201c;see&#x00201d;-with-their-skin\/\">wonderfully<\/a> disturbing\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/04\/t-rex-leech\/\">new species of leech<\/a> that you don&#8217;t want to find up your nose. For background, check out <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/07\/science\/07leec.html\">my profile<\/a> of its discoverer, Mark Siddall, in the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LxISSj3PtLGmD7aim-Kh0oF9LWs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LxISSj3PtLGmD7aim-Kh0oF9LWs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LxISSj3PtLGmD7aim-Kh0oF9LWs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LxISSj3PtLGmD7aim-Kh0oF9LWs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/Ge4ECH3k4Ls\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/uCra96-3Ri8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderfully disturbing\u00a0new species of leech that you don&#8217;t want to find up your nose. For background, check out my profile of its discoverer, Mark Siddall, in the New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30UU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}