{"id":86120,"date":"2018-12-27T00:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/hungry-bacterial-colonies-swirl-to-suck-up-nutrients"},"modified":"2018-12-27T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:22:48","slug":"hungry-bacterial-colonies-swirl-to-suck-up-nutrients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/hungry-bacterial-colonies-swirl-to-suck-up-nutrients","title":{"rendered":"Hungry bacterial colonies swirl to suck up nutrients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hungry-bacterial-colonies-swirl-to-suck-up-nutrients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a biofilm has eaten every nearby nutrient it can, bacteria synchronize vortex-like patterns to grab more distant food.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/biofilms-bacteria-vortexes-1941682\/\">https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/biofilms-bacteria-vortexes-1941682\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a biofilm has eaten every nearby nutrient it can, bacteria synchronize vortex-like patterns to grab more distant food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}