{"id":195991,"date":"2024-09-10T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/cymothoa-exigua-is-an-alien-like-tongue-eating-parasite"},"modified":"2024-09-10T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:23:07","slug":"cymothoa-exigua-is-an-alien-like-tongue-eating-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/cymothoa-exigua-is-an-alien-like-tongue-eating-parasite","title":{"rendered":"Cymothoa Exigua is an Alien-Like Tongue-Eating Parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cymothoa-exigua-is-an-alien-like-tongue-eating-parasite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the creatures in the \u201cAlien\u201d universe that feed off your face and burst out of your chest? Learn more about the closest thing we have to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the creatures in the \u201cAlien\u201d universe that feed off your face and burst out of your chest? Learn more about the closest thing we have to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195991","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}