{"id":107368,"date":"2020-05-20T21:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/researchers-focus-on-the-bacteria-in-the-clam-that-sank-a-thousand-ships"},"modified":"2020-05-20T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:15:05","slug":"researchers-focus-on-the-bacteria-in-the-clam-that-sank-a-thousand-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/researchers-focus-on-the-bacteria-in-the-clam-that-sank-a-thousand-ships","title":{"rendered":"Researchers focus on the bacteria in the clam that sank a thousand ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-focus-on-the-bacteria-in-the-clam-that-sank-a-thousand-ships2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/07\/20\/world\/st-ann-s-bay-journal-sing-o-jamaican-silt-of-columbus-s-leaky-ships.html\">stranded<\/a> Christopher Columbus in Jamaica. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/tunneling-clam-bedeviled-humans-sank-ships-conquered-oceans-180961288\/\">brought down<\/a> the Spanish Armada. They sent San Francisco\u2019s piers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/when-worms-wrecked-san-francisco-bay\">crumbling into the sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They stranded Christopher Columbus in Jamaica. They brought down the Spanish Armada. They sent San Francisco\u2019s piers crumbling into the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107368","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}