{"id":627,"date":"2007-02-15T11:34:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T11:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/02\/flashbang-cephalopods\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T11:34:55","slug":"flashbang-cephalopods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/02\/15\/flashbang-cephalopods\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashbang Cephalopods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <em>Taningia danae<\/em>, a deep-sea squid, uses &#8220;bright flashes to disorientate potential victims&#8221;, much like Ts and CTs use flashbangs in order to blind, confuse, and incapacitate their opponents in CS.<br \/>\nCheck out the story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6357005.stm\">here<\/a>, and don&#8217;t miss the video.<br \/>\nFire in the hole! Me ga mienai!<br \/>\nAh, sometimes it&#8217;s fun to revel in one&#8217;s own nerdiness.<br \/>\nOn a side note, I am willing to bet that <em>T. Danae<\/em> tastes nasty. I know that the smaller, bioluminescent hotaru ika (firefly squid), considered a delicacy in Japan, doesn&#8217;t rate among my favorite calamari dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Taningia danae, a deep-sea squid, uses &#8220;bright flashes to disorientate potential victims&#8221;, much like Ts and CTs use flashbangs in order to blind, confuse, and incapacitate their opponents in CS. Check out the story here, and don&#8217;t miss the video. Fire in the hole! Me ga mienai! Ah, sometimes it&#8217;s fun to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/02\/15\/flashbang-cephalopods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cephalopods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}