{"id":12001,"date":"2011-01-14T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2011-01-14T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:21:27","slug":"the-most-alien-looking-place-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2011\/01\/the-most-alien-looking-place-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The most alien-looking place on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Socotra, Republic of Yemen:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIt is very isolated with a harsh, dry climate and as a result a third of its plant-life is found nowhere else, including the famous Dragon\u2019s Blood Tree, a very-unnatural looking umbrella-shaped tree which produces red sap. There are also a large number of birds, spiders and other animals native to the island, and coral reefs around it which similarly have a large number of endemic (i.e. only found there) species. Socotra is considered the most biodiverse place in the Arabian sea, and is a World Heritage Site.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/socotra_island.jpg\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/socotra_island-360x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Socotra Island vegetation\" width=\"360\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12002\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLook at those awesome juicy plant lumplings!! Like something out of Dr Seuss. I WANT to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socotra, Republic of Yemen: It is very isolated with a harsh, dry climate and as a result a third of its plant-life is found nowhere else, including the famous Dragon\u2019s Blood Tree, a very-unnatural looking umbrella-shaped tree which produces red sap. There are also a large number of birds, spiders and other animals native to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,220,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-desireth","category-travelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}