{"id":10474,"date":"2012-05-07T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2012-05-03T01:13:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T08:13:26","slug":"earthworms-can-consume-about-12-to-1-times-their-body-weight-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/earthworms-can-consume-about-12-to-1-times-their-body-weight-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthworms Can Consume About 1\/2 to 1 Times Their Body Weight Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/worm-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10532\" title=\"worm-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/worm-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/worm-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/worm-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthworms can consume about 1\/2 to 1 times their body weight every day.\u00a0 They also will eat just about any dead organic matter along with processing a variety of garbage and even tiny rocks that have organic matter on them, grinding the rocks into a paste that will enrich the soil.\u00a0 They are quite literally nature\u2019s garbage disposals.\u00a0 Earthworms also force air through the underground tunnels they create, thereby aerating the soil as they work.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worm Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/south-african-earthworms-can-grow-as-large-as-22-feet-long\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthworms can consume about 1\/2 to 1 times their body weight every day.\u00a0 They also will eat just about any dead organic matter along with processing a variety of garbage and even tiny rocks that have organic matter on them, grinding the rocks into a paste that will enrich the soil.\u00a0 They are quite literally nature\u2019s garbage disposals.\u00a0 Earthworms also [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[642,2464,2463,1112,739,2524],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-animal-facts","tag-know-it","tag-now-you-know","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-worm-facts","tag-you-should-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10570,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}