{"id":231,"date":"2003-12-16T07:24:01","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T13:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=231"},"modified":"2003-12-16T07:24:01","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T13:24:01","slug":"squirrel-cicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/12\/16\/squirrel-cicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel-cicle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frozen squirrels?<\/p>\n<p>It sounds rather strange to me, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,61413,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2\">according to this article on Wired News<\/a>, there&#8217;s a squirrel in the arctic that can lower it&#8217;s body tempurature to below freezing and still be able to walk around.  Scientists are studying this incredible adaptation to see if they can synthesize it in humans.  It would be a giant step toward all the cryogenic sleep chambers that science-fiction loves so well.  Not to mention what it might do for real-world space travel!<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s an interesting article and a fascinating concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frozen squirrels? It sounds rather strange to me, but according to this article on Wired News, there&#8217;s a squirrel in the arctic that can lower it&#8217;s body tempurature to below freezing and still be able to walk around. Scientists are studying this incredible adaptation to see if they can synthesize it in humans. It would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,30],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-real-world-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}