{"id":4160,"date":"2011-01-01T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:59:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:59:49","slug":"how-earthworms-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/how-earthworms-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"How Earthworms Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how-earthworms-breath2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4163\" title=\"how-earthworms-breath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how-earthworms-breath2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how-earthworms-breath2.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/how-earthworms-breath2-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Earthworm facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/south-african-earthworms-can-grow-as-large-as-22-feet-long\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Earthworm Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though earthworms need to breathe, they have no lungs.\u00a0 They acquire oxygen through their skin.\u00a0 This is why earthworms surface after heavy rains, despite the fact that it is extremely hazardous for them to do so.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t surface, they will suffocate and die because the heavy water content of the soil after rain doesn\u2019t allow gases to diffuse across their skin.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Earthworm Facts Text Version Even though earthworms need to breathe, they have no lungs.\u00a0 They acquire oxygen through their skin.\u00a0 This is why earthworms surface after heavy rains, despite the fact that it is extremely hazardous for them to do so.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t surface, they will suffocate and die [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1096],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-earthworm-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}