{"id":10617,"date":"2012-01-30T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/01\/30\/how-do-you-know-when-to-stop-s\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:51:12","slug":"how-do-you-know-when-to-stop-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/how-do-you-know-when-to-stop-s\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you know when to stop squeezing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a snake.  And, what causes some island dwelling boas to be smaller than the mainland variety?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know the answer to these two burning questions, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/science\/2012\/01\/boa-constrictors-get-a-feel-for-their-prey\/\">click here and visit Smithsonian&#8217;s Surprising Science where I&#8217;ll be guest blogging<\/a> for a couple of weeks.  For the first question, there is some new and very cool research.  For the second question, some older (but closely related) research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a snake. And, what causes some island dwelling boas to be smaller than the mainland variety? If you want to know the answer to these two burning questions, click here and visit Smithsonian&#8217;s Surprising Science where I&#8217;ll be guest blogging for a couple of weeks. For the first question, there is some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/how-do-you-know-when-to-stop-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do you know when to stop squeezing?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Lf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}