{"id":90566,"date":"2019-05-10T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/what-real-life-plants-could-groot-have-evolved-from"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:24:03","slug":"what-real-life-plants-could-groot-have-evolved-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/what-real-life-plants-could-groot-have-evolved-from","title":{"rendered":"What Real-Life Plants Could Groot Have Evolved From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-real-life-plants-could-groot-have-evolved-from2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Where did Groot come from? In reality, he came from the imaginations of Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, and Stan Lee. In the <em>Guardians of the Galaxy <\/em>movie, he came from another planet. In this essay, he came from the stuff in your yard. We\u2019ll see which plants might have evolved, over time, to become the world\u2019s most beloved tree-man. <em>Warning: Major spoilers for the movie after this point!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/what-real-life-plants-could-groot-have-evolved-from-1615573652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 Where did Groot come from? In reality, he came from the imaginations of Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, and Stan Lee. In the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, he came from another planet. In this essay, he came from the stuff in your yard. We\u2019ll see which plants might have evolved, over time, to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90566","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}