{"id":465,"date":"2013-02-26T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=465"},"modified":"2013-02-26T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T00:01:07","slug":"army-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Army Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=466#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-466\" alt=\"Army Ant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/army-ant-in-fingers-1024x905.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/army-ant-in-fingers-1024x905.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/army-ant-in-fingers-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many species of Army Ants that thrive in Costa Rica, and I&#8217;m not sure which species it is that Nito picked out of a swarm on the rainforest floor. While guiding a hike from Serena to Carate, Nito wanted to show us the ants&#8217; fierce pinchers. Getting bitten is not a risk I would have taken! Yet somehow Nita caught the insect, held it for a photo, and safely released it, without getting nipped.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many species of Army Ants that thrive in Costa Rica, and I&#8217;m not sure which species it is that Nito picked out of a swarm on the rainforest floor. While guiding a hike from Serena to Carate, Nito wanted to show us the ants&#8217; fierce pinchers. Getting bitten is not a risk I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,13,68,42,5],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ants","tag-brown","tag-insects","tag-invertibrates","tag-osa-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}