{"id":138,"date":"2008-05-07T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-05-07T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T17:02:51","slug":"smarter-than-an-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Smarter Than an Octopus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I gave Robin some apple juice in a sippy cup. He took to it immediately, and within a few seconds was holding and maneuvering the cup by himself. &#8220;He&#8217;s so smart!&#8221; I marveled to Sam. &#8220;He&#8217;s like&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg15420854.100-what-is-this-octopus-thinking.html\">octopus-level<\/a> smart!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a hominid,&#8221; Sam reminded me. &#8220;He&#8217;s probably <i>smarter<\/i> than an octopus.&#8221; Which kind of blew my mind. I guess Robin doesn&#8217;t have much opportunity to demonstrate his intelligence, since he can usually get whatever he wants just by being cute. But the little wheels are turning pretty quick in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I gave Robin some apple juice in a sippy cup. He took to it immediately, and within a few seconds was holding and maneuvering the cup by himself. &#8220;He&#8217;s so smart!&#8221; I marveled to Sam. &#8220;He&#8217;s like&#8212;octopus-level smart!&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s a hominid,&#8221; Sam reminded me. &#8220;He&#8217;s probably smarter than an octopus.&#8221; Which kind of blew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}