{"id":4058,"date":"2012-09-06T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2012-09-06T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:00:20","slug":"path-of-least-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/path-of-least-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"path of least resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cag1220-A7723-slug.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nThe mucus secreted by the foot contains fibres which help prevent the slug from slipping down vertical surfaces. The &#8220;slime trail&#8221; that a slug leaves behind has some secondary effects: other slugs coming across a slime trail can recognize the slime trail as produced by one of the same species, which is useful in finding a mate. Following a slime trail is also part of the hunting behavior of some carnivorous slugs.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slug\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mucus secreted by the foot contains fibres which help prevent the slug from slipping down vertical surfaces. The &#8220;slime trail&#8221; that a slug leaves behind has some secondary effects: other slugs coming across a slime trail can recognize the slime trail as produced by one of the same species, which is useful in finding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/path-of-least-resistance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;path of least resistance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}