{"id":121840,"date":"2021-04-22T22:06:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/10-stomachs-32-brains-and-18-testicles-a-day-inside-the-uks-only-leech-farm"},"modified":"2021-04-22T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:06:49","slug":"10-stomachs-32-brains-and-18-testicles-a-day-inside-the-uks-only-leech-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/10-stomachs-32-brains-and-18-testicles-a-day-inside-the-uks-only-leech-farm","title":{"rendered":"10 stomachs, 32 brains and 18 testicles \u2013 a day inside the UK\u2019s only leech farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/10-stomachs-32-brains-and-18-testicles-a-day-inside-the-uks-only-leech-farm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O, o circa 2013.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery. But how are they farmed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O, o circa 2013. They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery. But how are they farmed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121840","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=121840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}