{"id":6013,"date":"2010-07-17T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2010-07-17T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:00:24","slug":"how-insects-have-solved-the-baggage-fee-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6013","title":{"rendered":"How Insects Have Solved the Baggage-Fee Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128389587\">NPR:  Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can&#8217;t See<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can see them launching themselves, says entomologist Matt Greenstone:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just stand straight up on their little back legs and just by doing that they can get part of their body up into this layer [of air] where it\u2019s more turbulent and then, if you can get a ride on a parcel that&#8217;s going up, you can get off the ground and then if you\u2019re lucky you can get carried aloft.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can&#8217;t See You can see them launching themselves, says entomologist Matt Greenstone: &#8220;They just stand straight up on their little back legs and just by doing that they can get part of their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}