{"id":1641,"date":"2014-11-28T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2014-11-28T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:27:07","slug":"the-mystery-of-life-and-death-unexplained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/11\/28\/the-mystery-of-life-and-death-unexplained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery Of Life And Death, Unexplained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For decades, scientists have studied Blackrock Crater to understand it&#8217;s almost mystical attraction. Birds, animals&#8211;even insects&#8211;travel miles to the scenic spot, only to die from a combination of hyperthermia and suffocation. These deaths were not random. Rather, something was attracting the animals.<\/p>\n<p>All manner of hypothesis were considered and then discarded. Magnetic fields, parasites, chemicals. There was no plausible explanation for the mass deaths. It almost seemed like intentional suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Dr. Seaver decided that truly was the answer. There wasn&#8217;t any scientific explanation for the phenomenon. The animals came to Blackrock simply because they wanted to die.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, scientists have studied Blackrock Crater to understand it&#8217;s almost mystical attraction. Birds, animals&#8211;even insects&#8211;travel miles to the scenic spot, only to die from a combination of hyperthermia and suffocation. These deaths were not random. Rather, something was attracting the animals. All manner of hypothesis were considered and then discarded. Magnetic fields, parasites, chemicals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1709,3139,1180,3144,3137,295,1082,3140,3141,720,3142,3138,3143,54,216,1224,564],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-animals","tag-attraction","tag-birds","tag-chemicals","tag-crater","tag-death","tag-doctor","tag-hyperthermia","tag-hypothesis","tag-insects","tag-magnetic-fields","tag-mystical","tag-parasites","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-suffocation","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}