{"id":15242,"date":"2012-11-06T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=15242"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:08:05","slug":"a-male-octopus-reproductive-organ-is-one-of-its-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/a-male-octopus-reproductive-organ-is-one-of-its-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Male Octopus&#8217; Reproductive Organ Is One of Its Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?attachment_id=15243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15243\" title=\"TIFO Quick Fact- Octopus Reproduction Organ Fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Octopus-Reproduction-Organ-Fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Octopus-Reproduction-Organ-Fact.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Octopus-Reproduction-Organ-Fact-340x226.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Text Version:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIf you ever get tangled up with a male octopus, be careful which arm you touch. If you reach out to touch the third right arm, it&#8217;s more than just his arm, it\u2019s also his reproductive organ, or &#8220;manhood&#8221;. The octopus uses this specialized arm called a &#8216;hectocotylus&#8217; to insert &#8216;spermatophores&#8217; which are packets of sperm, into the female&#8217;s mantle cavity for reproduction.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: If you ever get tangled up with a male octopus, be careful which arm you touch. If you reach out to touch the third right arm, it&#8217;s more than just his arm, it\u2019s also his reproductive organ, or &#8220;manhood&#8221;. The octopus uses this specialized arm called a &#8216;hectocotylus&#8217; to insert &#8216;spermatophores&#8217; which are packets of sperm, into the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[642,3032,2254,3033,1112,2711,756],"class_list":["post-15242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-animal-facts","tag-fun-facts","tag-octopus-facts","tag-octopus-reproduction-fact","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-random-facts","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15305,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions\/15305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}