{"id":12588,"date":"2019-06-02T07:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2019-06-02T07:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:42:41","slug":"7-things-named-after-obama-from-schools-to-roads-to-an-extinct-foot-long-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/7-things-named-after-obama-from-schools-to-roads-to-an-extinct-foot-long-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Things Named After Obama, From Schools To Roads To An Extinct Foot-Long Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama&#39;s animal legacy: the Etheostoma obama fish and other species named after him <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p83oZpS5Gj\">https:\/\/t.co\/p83oZpS5Gj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wAtzezme8V\">pic.twitter.com\/wAtzezme8V<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Taylor Umlauf (@TaylorUmlauf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorUmlauf\/status\/775442083574345728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>=======================<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7 Things Named After Obama, From Schools To Roads To An Extinct Foot-Long Lizard<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Bustle<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bustle.com\/profile\/lani-seelinger-1907634\">Lani Seelinger<\/a> &#8212; June 1, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>6. Living Species<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Scientists discover new plant, animal, bacterial, and fungal species  all the time, and those discoveries always offer a chance for some  creativity when it comes to giving them scientific names. By the time  Obama left office, there were at least <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/12\/these-nine-different-creatures-have-been-named-after-barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\"><em>eight living things named after him<\/em><\/a><em>, according to Science .  None of them were particularly warm and fuzzy; instead, the list  includes a type of lichen, three species of fish, a spider, a bird, and  two \u2014 yes, two \u2014 parasites. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thomas Platt, the now-retired biologist who discovered one of those parasites, the Baracktrema obamai  species that lives in the blood of some Malaysian turtles, told the  Associated Press that he meant the tribute as a compliment rather than  an insult. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/da385c1815934b909ba681c7b42773dc\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s long. It\u2019s thin. And it\u2019s cool as hell,&#8221;<\/em><\/a><em> Platt said, calling the Baracktrema obamai &#8220;phenomenally incredibly resilient organisms.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete post including links and images at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bustle.com\/p\/7-things-named-after-obama-from-schools-to-roads-to-extinct-foot-long-lizard-17900947\">https:\/\/www.bustle.com\/p\/7-things-named-after-obama-from-schools-to-roads-to-extinct-foot-long-lizard-17900947<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>======================= 7 Things Named After Obama, From Schools To Roads To An Extinct Foot-Long Lizard Bustle, by Lani Seelinger &#8212; June 1, 2019 Excerpt: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 6. Living Species Scientists discover new plant, animal, bacterial, and fungal species all the time, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/7-things-named-after-obama-from-schools-to-roads-to-an-extinct-foot-long-lizard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12589,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions\/12589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}