{"id":222803,"date":"2025-10-02T04:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/this-is-how-a-venus-flytrap-senses-the-right-time-to-close-its-jaws-on-prey"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:40:35","slug":"this-is-how-a-venus-flytrap-senses-the-right-time-to-close-its-jaws-on-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/this-is-how-a-venus-flytrap-senses-the-right-time-to-close-its-jaws-on-prey","title":{"rendered":"This is How a Venus Flytrap Senses the Right Time to Close Its Jaws on Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-how-a-venus-flytrap-senses-the-right-time-to-close-its-jaws-on-prey2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese scientists discover the molecular switch that lets the Venus flytrap sense touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scientists discover the molecular switch that lets the Venus flytrap sense touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222803","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=222803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}