{"id":18028,"date":"2013-04-15T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18028"},"modified":"2013-04-16T01:06:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:06:38","slug":"killer-snails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/15\/killer-snails\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer &#8230; snails!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18029\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/15\/killer-snails\/giant-african-land-snail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail.jpeg?fit=660%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,371\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Giant African land snail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail.jpeg?fit=660%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18029\" alt=\"Giant African land snail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail-500x281.jpeg?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail.jpeg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail.jpeg?resize=510%2C286&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Giant-African-land-snail.jpeg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/04\/15\/1617216\/giant-snails-invade-florida\">Slashdot reports<\/a> the next invasion of species. \u00a0It&#8217;s in Florida for now, and these aren&#8217;t too fast or extremely vicious creates, but still &#8230; I do understand how uncomfortable and damaging this might be to people who are affected, but never-the-less one has to admit that it&#8217;s pretty funny. \u00a0If you do have enough of sense of humor to laugh about it, go read some Slashdot comments to the story. \u00a0I was literally laughing out loud. \u00a0If you prefer your humor in a video source, here is one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTV23B5gBsQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Slashdot reports the next invasion of species. \u00a0It&#8217;s in Florida for now, and these aren&#8217;t too fast or extremely vicious creates, but still &#8230; I do understand how uncomfortable and damaging this might be to people who are affected, but never-the-less one has to admit that it&#8217;s pretty funny. \u00a0If you do have enough of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/15\/killer-snails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Killer &#8230; snails!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3099,2418,2414,980,2395,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-agriculture","tag-humor","tag-insects","tag-snail","tag-usa","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11499,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/01\/kde4-as-seen-on-slashdot\/","url_meta":{"origin":18028,"position":0},"title":"KDE4, as seen on Slashdot","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"KDE 4 released.\u00a0 That's how I started reading the discussion thread on Slashdot ...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/slashdot_essence.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8506,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/19\/the-funniest-slashdot-discussion-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":18028,"position":1},"title":"The funniest Slashdot discussion ever","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The funniest Slashdot discussion ever is titled \"Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine\". 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