{"id":1340,"date":"2007-05-28T23:07:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T05:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2007-05-28T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T05:07:18","slug":"would-you-climb-into-a-pothole-so-i-dont-step-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2007\/05\/28\/would-you-climb-into-a-pothole-so-i-dont-step-into-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you climb into a pothole so I don&#8217;t step into it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think so. It&#8217;s a <em>lot <\/em>to ask of another human being.\u00a0 Then again, if we were &#8220;lowly&#8221; army ants, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/05\/070527090257.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we would readily serve as pothole plugs for each other.<\/a>\u00a0 According to Dr. Scott Powell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Broadly, our research demonstrates that a simple but highly specialised behaviour performed by a minority of ant workers can improve the performance of the majority, resulting in a clear benefit for the society as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think so. It&#8217;s a lot to ask of another human being.\u00a0 Then again, if we were &#8220;lowly&#8221; army ants, we would readily serve as pothole plugs for each other.\u00a0 According to Dr. Scott Powell: Broadly, our research demonstrates that a simple but highly specialised behaviour performed by a minority of ant workers can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[4],"tags":[6433],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-science","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}