{"id":5022,"date":"2009-07-03T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2009-07-03T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:12:43","slug":"and-now-we-have-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5022","title":{"rendered":"And Now We Have Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ant colony &#8211; as in, several immense colonies of related ants &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8127000\/8127519.stm\">taking over the world<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.<\/p>\n<p>colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that ants go through many generations a year, now long can it be before they catch us?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Obama Administration is not only reaching out to the Ant world (so they don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re too arrogant), but he&#8217;s already started re-engineering American society in the image of an ant colony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ant colony &#8211; as in, several immense colonies of related ants &#8211; is taking over the world Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}