{"id":331899,"date":"2017-06-19T10:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170619101824.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-19T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:18:24","slug":"spineless-creature-studied-in-dc-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=331899","title":{"rendered":"Spineless creature studied in DC swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its name is Stygobromus hayi, the Hay&#8217;s Spring amphipod. It is spineless. It lacks vision. It is an opportunistic feeder, consuming whatever resources are available &#8212; perhaps including the remains of its own kind. That is where its similarities to some of Washington, D.C.&#8217;s more notorious megafauna end. Researchers report on a way to survey it without threatening its existence, as other studies had done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its name is Stygobromus hayi, the Hay&#8217;s Spring amphipod. It is spineless. It lacks vision. It is an opportunistic feeder, consuming whatever resources are available &#8212; perhaps including the remains of its own kind. That is where its similarities to som&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331900,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331899\/revisions\/331900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}