{"id":113198,"date":"2020-09-20T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/student-makes-canoe-from-fungus-which-grows-mushrooms-when-its-used"},"modified":"2020-09-20T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:23:21","slug":"student-makes-canoe-from-fungus-which-grows-mushrooms-when-its-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/student-makes-canoe-from-fungus-which-grows-mushrooms-when-its-used","title":{"rendered":"Student makes canoe from fungus which grows mushrooms when it\u2019s used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/student-makes-canoe-from-fungus-which-grows-mushrooms-when-its-used.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Nebraska student has grown her own canoe using fungus \u2014 and it sprouts new mushrooms every time she takes it out on the water.<\/p>\n<p>Katy Ayers, 28, created the 8ft-long boat from fibrous mushroom roots, otherwise known as mycelium.<\/p>\n<p>The roots are usually found beneath soil and known for their dense, buoyant and waterproof properties, <a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/mushroom-canoe-thats-a-fungi-idea-jpcv6vc0d\">The Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nebraska student has grown her own canoe using fungus \u2014 and it sprouts new mushrooms every time she takes it out on the water. Katy Ayers, 28, created the 8ft-long boat from fibrous mushroom roots, otherwise known as mycelium. The roots are usually found beneath soil and known for their dense, buoyant and waterproof [\u2026]<\/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-113198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113198","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=113198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}