{"id":24248,"date":"2013-05-05T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=24248"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:46:58","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-slowest-delivery-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-slowest-delivery-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What is the slowest delivery in nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/2013-birth-year-box?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21836_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013 Birth Year Box | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21836_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21836_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21836_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21836_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>For a human mother-to-be, nine months of pregnancy may feel endless, but we still have it better than some members of the animal kingdom. Giraffes remain pregnant for 13 to 16 months\u2014and not only that, they also give birth standing up, welcoming the baby into the world with a drop of 5 to 7 feet to the ground. Elephants experience pregnancy on an even larger scale, with the calf spending enough time in the womb to celebrate a second birthday before ever taking a breath. The longest vertebrate pregnancy, however, belongs to the frilled shark. One of several ancient species referred to as \u201cliving fossils,\u201d this deep sea dweller can be gestate its young for 3.5 years before giving birth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/2013-birth-year-box?source=blog\">2013 Birth Year Box, $45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a human mother-to-be, nine months of pregnancy may feel endless, but we still have it better than some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":24250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}