{"id":31985,"date":"2022-06-28T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31985"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:40:19","slug":"big-little-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31985","title":{"rendered":"Big Little Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/06\/new-bacterium-roughly-the-size-shape-of-an-eyelash-smashes-size-record\/\">Clinging to sunken<\/a> debris in shallow, marine mangrove forests in the French Caribbean, tiny thread-like organisms\u2014perfectly visible to the naked eye\u2014have earned the title of the largest bacteria ever known.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring around a centimeter long, they are roughly the size and shape of a human eyelash, batting away the competition at 5,000 times the size of garden-variety bacteria and 50 times the size of bacteria previously considered giant. In human terms, this is akin to coming across a person as tall as Mount Everest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinging to sunken debris in shallow, marine mangrove forests in the French Caribbean, tiny thread-like organisms\u2014perfectly visible to the naked eye\u2014have earned the title of the largest bacteria ever known. Measuring around a centimeter long, they are roughly the size and shape of a human eyelash, batting away the competition at 5,000 times the size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31986,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions\/31986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}