{"id":1959,"date":"2021-06-07T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2021-06-07T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:40:50","slug":"and-bananas-in-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and bananas in payment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.jpeg 900w, http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-768x768.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-500x500.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Cambodia, some genius figured  out how to train rats to sniff out landmines. It\u2019s perfect, because they\u2019re too light to trigger ordinance, and they have an excellent sense of smell. One of them was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/04\/1003258540\/after-years-of-detecting-land-mines-a-heroic-rat-is-hanging-up-his-sniffer\" target=\"_blank\">recently awarded a gold medal for his services<\/a>, just before he hangs up the harness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cambodia, some genius figured out how to train rats to sniff out landmines. It\u2019s perfect, because they\u2019re too light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}