{"id":1118,"date":"2008-05-20T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2008-05-20T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:18:18","slug":"nature-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/nature-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a roundup of strange natural happenings, and of course adorable animals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/wtf_nature\" target=\"_blank\">WTF Nature<\/a> is a good overall resource for strange natural things, lots of contributors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mom provided a good link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/206%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\">a video from the TED conference<\/a> where they show just how really really strange and wonderful creatures octopi really are, among other cool underwater things.\u00c2\u00a0 Definitely worth a watch.<\/li>\n<li>Then we have a nice few shots of a family enjoying a newly built playstructure.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnj.edu\/~hofmann\/playground\/Playground.htm\">A family of bears<\/a>, that is.\u00c2\u00a0 The perils of building anything that fun when living in Alaska, I suppose.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/technology\/technology.html?in_article_id=565909&amp;in_page_id=1965\" target=\"_blank\">Biiig freaking cow, huge, really really big cow.\u00c2\u00a0 Very Large Cow.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/internet-pets.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/mothers-love.html\" target=\"_blank\">Insanely cute animal pictures<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Hurts my teeth to look at this.<\/li>\n<li>Extraordinarily specialized blog, narrowly covering the specific <a href=\"http:\/\/cuteotters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cuteness of otters<\/a>, which really is an under-reported field.\u00c2\u00a0 Bravo.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, only narrowly animal related, a blog covering things that look like ducks.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thispeanutlookslikeaduck.com\/quack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yes, really<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00c2\u00a0 All of your natural wonders covered here in excruciating detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a roundup of strange natural happenings, and of course adorable animals. WTF Nature is a good overall resource for strange natural things, lots of contributors. Mom provided a good link to a video from the TED conference where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/nature-roundup\/\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-i2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}