{"id":678860,"date":"2021-01-21T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678860"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:00:02","slug":"stickiness-is-a-weapon-some-plants-use-to-fend-off-hungry-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678860","title":{"rendered":"Stickiness is a weapon some plants use to fend off hungry insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the texture of a plant. Many may come to mind\u2014the smooth rubberiness of many tropical houseplants, the impossibly soft lamb&#8217;s ear, the sharp spines of cacti, or the roughness of tree bark. But stickiness, in the flypaper-stick-to-your-fingers sense, probably isn&#8217;t at the top of your list.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-stickiness-weapon-fend-hungry-insects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Stickiness is a weapon some plants use to fend off hungry insects<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the texture of a plant. Many may come to mind\u2014the smooth rubberiness of many tropical houseplants, the impossibly soft lamb&#8217;s ear, the sharp spines of cacti, or the roughness&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678860","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678860\/revisions"}],"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=678860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}