{"id":101,"date":"2008-08-13T21:54:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-08-13T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:56:16","slug":"fun-with-octopodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Octopodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsoftheweird.com\/archive\/nw080810.html\" target=\"_blank\">News of the Weird<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Higher-Order Animal Research: Britain&#8217;s Sea Life Centre announced a study in July that would give octopuses Rubik&#8217;s Cubes to play with, to ascertain whether they use a certain tentacle for such activities, or any tentacle at random. [Daily Mail (London), 7-7-08]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An hour later (if memories of childhood serve correctly)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Observers were stunned when hidden cameras filmed one octopus making off with his Rubik&#8217;s Cube into a dark corner. \u00c2\u00a0Further investigation revealed his tentacles were covered in brightly colored square stickers. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;What?&#8221; he asked when questioned. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;They just <em>came<\/em> off. \u00c2\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t trying to cheat!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From News of the Weird: Higher-Order Animal Research: Britain&#8217;s Sea Life Centre announced a study in July that would give octopuses Rubik&#8217;s Cubes to play with, to ascertain whether they use a certain tentacle for such activities, or any tentacle at random. [Daily Mail (London), 7-7-08] An hour later (if memories of childhood serve correctly)&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipfitz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}