{"id":8430,"date":"2010-03-24T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:33:12","slug":"spires-of-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8430","title":{"rendered":"Spires of Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36018244\/ns\/technology_and_science-science\/'>The world's tallest fungus<\/a>, according to a new paper, was the giant Prototaxites, which towered over the Silurian and Devonian landscapes from around 350 to 420 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fossils for the over 26-foot-tall giant have led to scientific debate over the years, with some experts believing it was a huge plant, algae or lichen. The new study, however, published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, presents evidence that it was a fungus that likely derived at least some of its hefty nutrition load from bacteria, algae and moss. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eeewww.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world's tallest fungus, according to a new paper, was the giant Prototaxites, which towered over the Silurian and Devonian landscapes from around 350 to 420 million years ago. Fossils for the over 26-foot-tall giant have led to scientific debate over the years, with some experts believing it was a huge plant, algae or lichen. [&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-8430","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\/8430","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=8430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}