{"id":1451,"date":"2008-01-18T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/video-excavating-a-huge-ant-nest\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T22:48:02","slug":"video-excavating-a-huge-ant-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/video-excavating-a-huge-ant-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Excavating a Huge Ant Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it&#8217;s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1\/2 mile to the surface. It is the equivalent of building the great wall of china. It is truly a wonder of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xQERRbU23bU&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xQERRbU23bU&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full\u00a0documentary &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/openflv.com\/watch?v=NTgxODU=&amp;p=0\">Ants &#8211; Natures Secret Power<\/a>&#8221; over at <a href=\"http:\/\/openflv.com\/watch?v=NTgxODU=&amp;p=0\">openflv.com<\/a>, it&#8217;s worth\u00a0downloading to\u00a0watch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it&#8217;s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1\/2 mile to the surface. It is the<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/video-excavating-a-huge-ant-nest\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video: Excavating a Huge Ant Nest&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}