{"id":471852,"date":"2018-05-08T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a23016f8fc956bdb58c29f401a9a2aef"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:32:19","slug":"an-inordinate-fondness-for-bone-eating-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=471852","title":{"rendered":"An inordinate fondness for bone-eating worms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6, 2002, MBARI marine biologist Robert Vrijenhoek went looking for deep-sea clams in Monterey Canyon. Little did he know that he would stumble upon something that would change the direction of his scientific career. It was a dead whale, sprawled out on the seafloor. The dead whale was interesting, but what really got Vrijenhoek&#8217;s attention was what looked like red shag carpeting covering the whale bones. It turned out that the &#8220;shag carpeting&#8221; consisted of thousands of slimy, eyeless worms, lurking in the ocean depths and devouring the bones of dead animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6, 2002, MBARI marine biologist Robert Vrijenhoek went looking for deep-sea clams in Monterey Canyon. Little did he know that he would stumble upon something that would change the direction of his scientific career. It was a dead whale, spr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471852","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471853,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471852\/revisions\/471853"}],"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=471852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}