{"id":1206,"date":"2011-07-10T20:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.org\/weblog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2011-10-14T22:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T05:28:18","slug":"thigmotactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"thigmotactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26222069?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/26222069\">lophophora flower<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1299944\">oliver kellhammer<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Revered as &#8216;the flesh of god&#8217; and &#8216;the furry thing&#8217; since ancient times, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lophophora\" title=\"Lophophora\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lophophora<\/em><\/a> cacti are amazing for a whole lot of reasons, not the least of which is that they are powerfully psychoactive. I always keep a few around as &#8216;pets,&#8217; though they are sadly too slow growing for me to be able to harvest more than once every quarter century. One of their appeals is that the flowers have <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/thigmotaxis\" title=\"thigmotactic definition\" target=\"_blank\">thigmotactic<\/a> anthers, which curl over onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pistil\" title=\"pistil\" target=\"_blank\">pistil<\/a> when touched, depositing pollen. This allows <em>Lophophora<\/em> to self pollinate so they can set seed even if there aren&#8217;t others of their own kind growing nearby. Please enjoy my little video of this rather intimate botanical moment.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, sound collage artists <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negativeland\" title=\"Negativland \" target=\"_blank\">Negativland<\/a> are all over things thigmotactic and have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.negativland.com\/news\/?p=8\" title=\"thigmotactic album by Negativland\" target=\"_blank\"> even released an album<\/a> of the same name. As an added &#8216;Show So Far&#8217; bonus, you&#8217;ll find that knowing the word &#8216;thigmotactic&#8217; should enable you to kick some ass in your next Scrabble game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lophophora flower from oliver kellhammer on Vimeo. Revered as &#8216;the flesh of god&#8217; and &#8216;the furry thing&#8217; since ancient times, Lophophora cacti are amazing for a whole lot of reasons, not the least of which is that they are powerfully psychoactive. I always keep a few around as &#8216;pets,&#8217; though they are sadly too slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,49],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","tag-cacti","tag-hallucinogens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}