{"id":101923,"date":"2020-02-05T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-terrifying-science-behind-the-locust-plagues-of-africa"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:45:26","slug":"the-terrifying-science-behind-the-locust-plagues-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-terrifying-science-behind-the-locust-plagues-of-africa","title":{"rendered":"The Terrifying Science Behind the Locust Plagues of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-terrifying-science-behind-the-locust-plagues-of-africa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With hundreds of billions of locusts tearing through farmland, it\u2019s the worst outbreak to strike the region in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hundreds of billions of locusts tearing through farmland, it\u2019s the worst outbreak to strike the region in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}