{"id":1748,"date":"2011-11-21T23:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2011-11-21T23:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:41:26","slug":"tuesday-tunes-empire-ants-gorillaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/tuesday-tunes-empire-ants-gorillaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tunes &#8211; Empire Ants &#8211; Gorillaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-951\" title=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>From last week&#8217;s ESA meeting, you&#8217;d think that ants were all powerful and super diverse or something by the number of people talking about them and the level of excitement surrounding those talks! You might say people were going ape over the empire of ants&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1FR5XvKCcu0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ya, that was a pretty horrible reference. But the thing about ant enthusiasm and the large number of talks about a single family wasn&#8217;t hyperbole!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This song is available on iTunes &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/empire-ants-feat.-little-dragon\/id358108041?i=358108162&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon) &#8211; Plastic Beach<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From last week&#8217;s ESA meeting, you&#8217;d think that ants were all powerful and super diverse or something by the number of people talking about them and the level of excitement surrounding those talks! You might say people were going ape over the empire of ants&#8230; &nbsp; Ya, that was a pretty horrible reference. But the <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/tuesday-tunes-empire-ants-gorillaz\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,23,16,199],"tags":[237,15,249],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-insects","category-pop-culture","category-tuesday-tunes","tag-ant","tag-formicidae","tag-music","category-151-id","category-23-id","category-16-id","category-199-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}