{"id":3607,"date":"2011-02-27T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2011-02-27T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:01:57","slug":"connections-and-commensalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3607","title":{"rendered":"Connections and Commensalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is, among other things, a massive connection engine. I&#8217;ve made some great random connections following links around &#8211; some clicktrails I&#8217;ve managed to remember, some leave me scratching my head and grinning. The link to Sarah Jovan got established via Lord Whimsy&#8217;s live journal and an indication of interest in carnivorous plants. Regardless how tenuous the connection, there&#8217;s something in all of us (especially strong in me, perhaps) that loves to jump up and down and yell, &#8220;Hey! I (kinda\/internet) know that person!&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/media.opb.org\/clips\/embed\/hF23904k20110225092419.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>The commensalism in the title? \u00a0Lichens are a symbiosis of fungus and algae. For Sarah, my favorite lichen (because my mum taught me it&#8217;s common name when I was about 8 or 9) &#8211; a <em>Cladonia<\/em>, too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jlucier\/4428631034\/\" title=\"British Soldier Cladonia cristatella by jclucier, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4428631034_ce00dc1e1a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"British Soldier Cladonia cristatella\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is, among other things, a massive connection engine. I&#8217;ve made some great random connections following links around &#8211; some clicktrails I&#8217;ve managed to remember, some leave me scratching my head and grinning. The link to Sarah Jovan got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-Wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}