{"id":38435,"date":"2015-07-20T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=38435"},"modified":"2015-07-23T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:14:53","slug":"could-you-turn-into-a-slice-of-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/could-you-turn-into-a-slice-of-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Could You Turn Into A Slice Of Pizza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/pizza-cutter-and-server?source=blog_tji_150720\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38436 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/27092_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"27092_zoom1\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYour parents warned you that if you ate too many pizza slices, you\u2019d turn into one. Turns out, if you ate enough and you were anything like a flamingo, you could have come pretty close. You might have noticed that flamingos can be the iconic pink, orange, or even white. They begin their lives with grey plumage\u2014the color distinction later in life depends on their diet. Flamingos eat algae and crustaceans that contain pigments called carotenoids, mostly brine shrimp and blue-green algae. Enzymes in the liver break down the carotenoids into pink and orange pigment molecules that end up getting deposited in the feathers, bill, and legs of the birds. Captive flamingos tend to be a more vibrant pink since they\u2019re fed more pigmented crustaceans like prawns. We eat foods with carotenoids, like carrots or even watermelon; we just don\u2019t eat enough to affect our skin color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/pizza-cutter-and-server?source=blog_tji_150720\" target=\"_blank\">Pizza Cutter and Server<\/a> | $20.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, if you ate enough and you were anything like a flamingo, you could have come pretty close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":38438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[716,197,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435"}],"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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38660,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435\/revisions\/38660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}