{"id":69,"date":"2005-12-27T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-12-27T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:28:37","slug":"the-new-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/the-new-predator\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Predator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt>Is this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/usatoday\/20051227\/ts_usatoday\/scientistsrecruitwaspsforwaronterror\">a neat news story<\/a> or is it something for PETA to get uptight about?<\/p>\n<p><dd>Scientists at a Georgia laboratory have developed what could be a low-tech, low-cost weapon in the war on terrorism: trained wasps.<\/p>\n<p><dd>The tiny, non-stinging wasps can check for hidden explosives at airports and monitor for toxins in subway tunnels.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>I vote for it&#8217;s being a neat news story.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s with the headline I chose?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you surely know about the Predator used by the the US military. At first it was just a remotely-controlled, air-borne, real-time, surveillance platform. Then someone got the bright idea of adding &#8220;rocket-shooting&#8221; to that description.<\/p>\n<p>These wasps are presently non-stinging, right? How soon till someone gets zapped with the bright idea of taking out the &#8220;non-&#8221; part of that description?<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought. A real zinger, in fact.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a neat news story or is it something for PETA to get uptight about? Scientists at a Georgia laboratory have developed what could be a low-tech, low-cost weapon in the war on terrorism: trained wasps. The tiny, non-stinging wasps can check for hidden explosives at airports and monitor for toxins in subway tunnels. &#8230; <a title=\"The New Predator?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/the-new-predator\/\" aria-label=\"More on The New Predator?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}