{"id":113500,"date":"2020-09-27T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/first-compelling-evidence-of-organisms-that-eat-viruses-as-a-food-source"},"modified":"2020-09-27T14:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:23:38","slug":"first-compelling-evidence-of-organisms-that-eat-viruses-as-a-food-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/first-compelling-evidence-of-organisms-that-eat-viruses-as-a-food-source","title":{"rendered":"First Compelling Evidence of Organisms That Eat Viruses as a Food Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-compelling-evidence-of-organisms-that-eat-viruses-as-a-food-source2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eat or be eaten: It\u2019s an edict of Mother Nature that connects every corner of the biosphere in a sprawling web of producers, consumers, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detritivore#:~:text=Detritivores%20(also%20known%20as%20detrivores,parts%20as%20well%20as%20faeces).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detritivores<\/a>, and scavengers.<\/p>\n<p>Every corner but one, it seems. Just what the hell dines on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"viruses\">viruses<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have just discovered the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat or be eaten: It\u2019s an edict of Mother Nature that connects every corner of the biosphere in a sprawling web of producers, consumers, detritivores, and scavengers. Every corner but one, it seems. Just what the hell dines on viruses? Scientists may have just discovered the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113500","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}