{"id":25682,"date":"2010-06-26T22:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/26\/germany-has-a-magic-octopus\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T22:15:59","slug":"germany-has-a-magic-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/germany-has-a-magic-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany has a magic octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> He swam straight over to the German glass, climbed in and even put a lid on top once he was sitting inside.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYes, it&#8217;s true.  Paul the octopus has been predicting German soccer outcomes for some time now, doing slightly better than random.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is in action (Do watch to the end. Maybe you can explain to me who those strange people in robes are):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BdccAhrjx_U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s an octopus going to do with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/1m-challenge.html\"> one million dollars? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He swam straight over to the German glass, climbed in and even put a lid on top once he was sitting inside.&#8221; Huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[321],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ge","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682"}],"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=25682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}