{"id":270,"date":"2008-07-29T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=270"},"modified":"2008-07-29T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:09:35","slug":"this-buds-for-shrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"This Bud's for Shrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7530720.stm\"><q>Tree-shrew is heavyweight boozer<\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Nectar from the flower buds of the bertam palm is fermented to a maximum alcohol content of up to 3.8%.<br \/><br \/>Each bud is a miniature brewery, containing a yeast community that turns the nectar into a frothy beer-like beverage.<br \/><br \/>Yet the animals, which are about the size of a small rat, do not seem to get drunk at all, researchers say.<\/blockquote><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tree-shrew is heavyweight boozer from the BBC Nectar from the flower buds of the bertam palm is fermented to a maximum alcohol content of up to 3.8%.Each bud is a miniature brewery, containing a yeast community that turns the nectar into a frothy beer-like beverage.Yet the animals, which are about the size of a small [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[305,306],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-alcohol","tag-shrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}