{"id":158761,"date":"2023-02-22T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/an-organism-used-as-fire-starter-for-centuries-could-replace-some-plastics-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:23:48","slug":"an-organism-used-as-fire-starter-for-centuries-could-replace-some-plastics-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/an-organism-used-as-fire-starter-for-centuries-could-replace-some-plastics-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"An organism used as fire starter for centuries could replace some plastics, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-organism-used-as-fire-starter-for-centuries-could-replace-some-plastics-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers took a closer look at the molecular structure of tinder fingus, a bell-shaped fungus that grows on trees \u2014 and they\u2019ve found \u201cingeniously lightweight biological designs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers took a closer look at the molecular structure of tinder fingus, a bell-shaped fungus that grows on trees \u2014 and they\u2019ve found \u201cingeniously lightweight biological designs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158761","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}