{"id":118749,"date":"2021-01-21T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/surprising-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:22:41","slug":"surprising-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/surprising-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Sea Slug Is Half-plant, Half-animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprising-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2011 o.o<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It\u2019s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.<\/p>\n<p>The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they\u2019ve eaten. With their contraband genes, the slugs can carry out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/3868-photosynthesis-sun-donatmt-shine.html\">photosynthesis<\/a> \u2014 the process plants use to convert sunlight into energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2011 o.o A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It\u2019s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll. The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they\u2019ve eaten. With their contraband genes, the slugs can carry out photosynthesis \u2014 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118749","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=118749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}