{"id":16274,"date":"2012-11-22T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2012-11-22T02:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T10:53:44","slug":"cats-cant-taste-sweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/cats-cant-taste-sweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats Can&#8217;t Taste Sweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cat-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16304\" title=\"cat-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cat-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cat-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cat-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Text Version:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nHumans enjoy five or more different tastes namely:\u00a0 sour, bitter, salty, umami (associated with meat), and sweet. We can taste sweet things thanks to two proteins generated by two separate genes.\u00a0 Cats, on the other hand, have a mutant chemoreceptor in their taste buds that prevents them from tasting sweet things, which is actually a trait shared by all cats big and small, not just domestic ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: Humans enjoy five or more different tastes namely:\u00a0 sour, bitter, salty, umami (associated with meat), and sweet. We can taste sweet things thanks to two proteins generated by two separate genes.\u00a0 Cats, on the other hand, have a mutant chemoreceptor in their taste buds that prevents them from tasting sweet things, which is actually a trait shared by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[642],"class_list":["post-16274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-animal-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274","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=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16337,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions\/16337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}