{"id":9445,"date":"2022-01-13T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9445"},"modified":"2022-03-10T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:58:29","slug":"making-contact-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9445","title":{"rendered":"Making Contact: Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fish_Catalogue_MAN_Napoli_Inv120177_n02_converted.jpg?resize=560%2C566&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"octopus\" class=\"wp-image-3975\" width=\"560\" height=\"566\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching the replay of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/nature\/octopus-making-contact-preview-a98u9n\/19851\/\">PBS Nature documentary<\/a> last night about an Alaska professor with an octopus in his living room reminded me of the other great books I&#8217;ve read about these amazing creatures. Their facility for mimicry, their distributed brains, their obvious intelligence. Such a good explanation of how far back came the divide on the evolutionary tree that led to, well, us, and to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sy Montgomery&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=6711\"><em>Soul of an Octopus<\/em><\/a>, goes even further into their fascinating behavior and how she befriended a particular octopus at the New England Aquarium. That review also has a link to my post, &#8220;Why I Don&#8217;t Eat Octopus.&#8221; I&#8217;m guessing you know the reason already! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the replay of the PBS Nature documentary last night about an Alaska professor with an octopus in his living room reminded me of the other great books I&#8217;ve read about these amazing creatures. Their facility for mimicry, their distributed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An octopus in your living room?  An Alaska professor gave it a try.\n","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1911,35,67,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-real-life","category-television","category-the-morgue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2sl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9446,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions\/9446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}