{"id":241457,"date":"2026-07-24T00:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-wild-parasite-makes-ants-live-10x-longer-and-tricks-others-into-worshipping-them"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:08:23","slug":"a-wild-parasite-makes-ants-live-10x-longer-and-tricks-others-into-worshipping-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-wild-parasite-makes-ants-live-10x-longer-and-tricks-others-into-worshipping-them","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Parasite Makes Ants Live 10x Longer And Tricks Others Into Worshipping Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-wild-parasite-makes-ants-live-10x-longer-and-tricks-others-into-worshipping-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a parasite that makes you live up to 10 times longer than you naturally would \u2013 while also inspiring others to treat you like royalty.<\/p>\n<p>It sure seems like a pretty good deal, but of course there\u2019s a catch.<\/p>\n<p>The parasite just wants to keep you lazy so you\u2019ll be easy pickings for a giant predator \u2013 the bowels of which are the parasite\u2019s preferred breeding ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a parasite that makes you live up to 10 times longer than you naturally would \u2013 while also inspiring others to treat you like royalty. It sure seems like a pretty good deal, but of course there\u2019s a catch. The parasite just wants to keep you lazy so you\u2019ll be easy pickings for a [\u2026]<\/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-241457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241457","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=241457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}