{"id":13443,"date":"2018-01-11T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2018-01-11T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:46:03","slug":"like-avocados-thank-this-giant-extinct-sloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/01\/like-avocados-thank-this-giant-extinct-sloth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Like Avocados? Thank This Giant Extinct Sloth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this is only tangentially related to climate, it&#8217;s an interesting story about avocados anyway. <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> provides another quirky tale of odd things from the past. In this case, how avocados developed and spread with the help of giant and now extinct giant land sloths. You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/avocado-giant-sloth-seed?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=e4f776fc3f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_11&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f36db9c480-e4f776fc3f-66385617&amp;ct=t()&amp;mc_cid=e4f776fc3f&amp;mc_eid=2e1044e189\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6999\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/avocado-on-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6999\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/avocado-on-tree-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/avocado-on-tree-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/avocado-on-tree-101x138.jpg 101w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/avocado-on-tree.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is only tangentially related to climate, it&#8217;s an interesting story about avocados anyway. Atlas Obscura provides another quirky tale of odd things from the past. In this case, how avocados developed and spread with the help of giant and now extinct giant land sloths. You can read the story here. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13444,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions\/13444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}