{"id":25823,"date":"2016-08-25T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=25823"},"modified":"2016-09-14T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:59:41","slug":"beetles-pollinated-orchids-20-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/beetles-pollinated-orchids-20-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetles Pollinated Orchids 20 Million Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/paleontology\/ancient-beetles-pollinated-orchids-04122.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frozen inside ancient amber from Mexico and the Dominican Republic, tiny beetles are carrying orchid pollen.<\/a> Their modern beetle relatives are not known to help pollinate any orchids, but 20-million-year-old amber proves that they once did. Some of the amber may be 45 million years old, stretching their connection back even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frozen inside ancient amber from Mexico and the Dominican Republic, tiny beetles are carrying orchid pollen. Their modern beetle relatives are not known to help pollinate any orchids, but 20-million-year-old amber proves that they once did. Some of the amber may be 45 million years old, stretching their connection back even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-quickpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25823"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25837,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25823\/revisions\/25837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}