{"id":385,"date":"2008-12-30T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=385"},"modified":"2014-07-22T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:33:41","slug":"an-amazon-delicacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/an-amazon-delicacy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Amazon Delicacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though to outsiders it may seem like a disgusting pest, the maniuara ant is actually considered a delicacy by several indigenous tribes in the Amazon. The ant has a large head and jaws, and can draw blood when humans are bitten.<\/p>\n<p>Women are responsible for hunting the maniuara, and they follow the ants to the anthills, where they dig a large hole. They then smoke the ants out, leaving them confused, and attract them into buckets using a local plant. To cook them, the women mix the ants in boiling water with salt and pepper.<\/p>\n<p>To see a video about the maniuara, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.globo.com\/Videos\/Player\/Noticias\/0,,GIM941344-7823-ABC+DA+AMAZONIA+MANIUARA,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"323\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/12\/ant.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Though to outsiders it may seem like a disgusting pest, the maniuara ant is actually considered a delicacy by several indigenous tribes in the Amazon. The ant has a large head and jaws, and can draw blood when humans are bitten. Women are responsible for hunting the maniuara, and they follow the ants to the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/an-amazon-delicacy\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1891,1898,379358,2287],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazon","tag-ant","tag-food","tag-maniuara"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}