{"id":1726,"date":"2009-04-03T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2009-04-03T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:51:33","slug":"foxfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/04\/03\/foxfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post isn&#8217;t about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/firefox.html\">Firefox<\/a>, the leading* web browser. I really do mean Foxfire.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to open with a really nerdy explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bioluminescence\">bioluminescence<\/a>, the scientific term for biological organisms (i.e., things that aren&#8217;t chemically-altered glowsticks) that glow in the dark. But that doesn&#8217;t sound interesting. (But <em>do<\/em> click through the Wikipedia link to see glow-in-the-dark waves.)<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll cut to the chase. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foxfire_(bioluminescence)\">Foxfire<\/a> is a mushroom that glows in the dark, and is apparently fairly common. What&#8217;s weird is that it appears as if it was widely known by people like Benjamin Franklin, but is now entirely unknown to people who don&#8217;t read my blog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among my tech-savvy peers, at least.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post isn&#8217;t about Firefox, the leading* web browser. I really do mean Foxfire. I was going to open with a really nerdy explanation of bioluminescence, the scientific term for biological organisms (i.e., things that aren&#8217;t chemically-altered glowsticks) that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/04\/03\/foxfire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}