{"id":2421,"date":"2009-02-02T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2009-02-04T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:34:37","slug":"natural-shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/02\/02\/natural-shrinkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the (more) serious stuff soon.\u00a0 But to finish the apple story, how scary is this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2422\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/02\/02\/natural-shrinkage\/shrinknatural\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"352,470\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 30D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1185658821&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"shrinknatural\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Scary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2422\" title=\"shrinknatural\" src=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural.jpg\" alt=\"Scary\" width=\"352\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural.jpg 352w, https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hot on the heels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/02\/01\/the-amazing-shrunken-head\/\">Amazing Shrinking Head<\/a>, I&#8217;ve dug this out of the archives.\u00a0 Taken last year at Hampton Court Palace,\u00a0 it&#8217;s an apple that has naturally dried out after someone stuck it on a spiked\u00a0 fence.\u00a0 With skin this time, there seems to be a natural predilection to eye-holes, and maybe a trace of nose? \u00a0 (BenGoldacreDisclaimer &#8211; warning, <strong><em>one<\/em><\/strong> example does not constitute a scientifically, statistically significant, sample. Great <em>Metro<\/em> copy though).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2423\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2423\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/02\/02\/natural-shrinkage\/shrinknatural2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"353,470\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 30D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1185658821&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"shrinknatural2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;But non significant&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural2.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2423\" title=\"shrinknatural2\" src=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural2.jpg\" alt=\"But non significant\" width=\"353\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural2.jpg 353w, https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shrinknatural2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">But not significant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the (more) serious stuff soon.\u00a0 But to finish the apple story, how scary is this? Hot on the heels of the Amazing Shrinking Head, I&#8217;ve dug this out of the archives.\u00a0 Taken last year at Hampton Court Palace,\u00a0 it&#8217;s an apple that has naturally dried out after someone stuck it on a spiked\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/02\/02\/natural-shrinkage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Natural Shrinkage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[175,446,567,568],"tags":[570,571,572],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-botany","category-experiments","category-fun","tag-apple","tag-dehydration","tag-dried-apple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-D3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}