{"id":96384,"date":"2026-06-29T04:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/this-trap-wants-ants-to-take-a-bite\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:26:44","slug":"this-trap-wants-ants-to-take-a-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/this-trap-wants-ants-to-take-a-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"This Trap Wants Ants to Take a Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found \u201cballista\u201d spider uses a springy snare to catch prey.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/27\/science\/this-trap-wants-ants-to-take-a-bite.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found \u201cballista\u201d spider uses a springy snare to catch prey. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2117,3429,9891,1488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}