{"id":3675,"date":"2011-02-28T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2014-07-13T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T00:41:14","slug":"when-the-ergot-hits-the-rye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/when-the-ergot-hits-the-rye\/","title":{"rendered":"When the ergot hits the rye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in my adolescence, I was brought along to some kind of poetry group and someone read a poem with on the theme of <a href=\"http:\/\/botit.botany.wisc.edu\/toms_fungi\/oct99.html\" target=\"_blank\">ergot poisoning from grain<\/a>. I have no other memories of the group at all, but I was reminded of it by this photo: <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/natural-beauty-wellcome-image-awards-gallery\/5 \" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/00453a91050.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ergot in wheat stigmas\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So, there it is. That&#8217;s what it looks like. <\/p>\n<p>That, and, maybe, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=salem+witch+ergot\" target=\"_blank\">Salem witch trials<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in my adolescence, I was brought along to some kind of poetry group and someone read a poem with on the theme of ergot poisoning from grain. I have no other memories of the group at all, but I was reminded of it by this photo: So, there it is. That&#8217;s what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[10,13,18],"tags":[256,428,476,825,920,945,1306],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","category-pictures","category-technology","tag-claviceps","tag-ergot","tag-fluorescent-micrographm","tag-nature","tag-photography","tag-poisoning","tag-wheat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Xh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5001,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}