{"id":86275,"date":"2018-12-31T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-beetle-species-named-after-game-of-thrones-dragons"},"modified":"2018-12-31T06:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:02:54","slug":"new-beetle-species-named-after-game-of-thrones-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-beetle-species-named-after-game-of-thrones-dragons","title":{"rendered":"New Beetle Species Named After \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-beetle-species-named-after-game-of-thrones-dragons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fate of Westeros will soon be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, entomologist Brett Ratcliffe has found three new contenders for the throne.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Nebraska professor named three of his eight newest beetle discoveries after a trio of dragons in George R. Martin\u2019s \u201cA Song of Ice and Fire\u201d book series (known more popularly as HBO\u2019s <i>Game of Thrones<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/new-beetle-species-named-after-game-of-thrones-dragons-1767789\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/new-beetle-species-named-after-gam...s-1767789\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of Westeros will soon be revealed. In the meantime, entomologist Brett Ratcliffe has found three new contenders for the throne. The University of Nebraska professor named three of his eight newest beetle discoveries after a trio of dragons in George R. Martin\u2019s \u201cA Song of Ice and Fire\u201d book series (known more popularly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86275","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=86275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}