{"id":478,"date":"2009-06-01T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:11:59","slug":"the-tables-turned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"The tables turned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/spatleavsundew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342180832963346594\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/spatleavsundew-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Consider the cunning necessary for a plant &#8211; about the slowest-moving life form on earth &#8211; to lure, capture and consume a fast-moving insect.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Sundews set their insect traps well below where their flowers bloom and lure prey by means of a sticky substance secreted by hairs on each of the leaves&#8230; it glistens in the sunlight and serves as a beacon to passing insects (and wandering photographers).<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to find spatulate-leaved sundews, as well as thread-leaved sundews, outside of a bog in the mostly dry sandy soil near the Speedwell entrance to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.njconservation.org\/html\/preserves\/franklinparker.htm\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Franklin Parker Preserve<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Here is a bloodthirsty little miscreant that lives by reversing the natural order of higher forms of life preying upon lower ones, an anomoly in that the vegetable eats the animal.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211;Neltje Blanchan<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the cunning necessary for a plant &#8211; about the slowest-moving life form on earth &#8211; to lure, capture and consume a fast-moving insect. \ud83d\ude09 Sundews set their insect traps well below where their flowers bloom and lure prey by means of a sticky substance secreted by hairs on each of the leaves&#8230; it glistens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The tables turned<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}