{"id":126460,"date":"2023-09-02T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126460"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:33:03","slug":"hour-11-there-are-no-poems-about-mushrooms-so-here-is-a-list-of-facts-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-11-there-are-no-poems-about-mushrooms-so-here-is-a-list-of-facts-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11: There Are No Poems About Mushrooms, So Here is a List of Facts About Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mushrooms evolved to decompose trees.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms grow by flooding their cells with water.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms are alien organisms genetically<\/p>\n<p>closer to humans than plants which live on food,<\/p>\n<p>Water, and oxygen. Mushrooms are the largest life source on earth;<\/p>\n<p>Their roots expand for miles in search of food.<\/p>\n<p>There are no poems about mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms help trees talk to each other<\/p>\n<p>Across a network of webs passing signals to other plants,<\/p>\n<p>especially during an attack. Mushrooms create airflows<\/p>\n<p>which shoot spores up to 4 inches into the air.<\/p>\n<p>There are eighty different species of mushrooms<\/p>\n<p>Which glow in the dark. Lightning boosts mushroom growth.<\/p>\n<p>It is theoretically possible that mushrooms came<\/p>\n<p>from an alien planet. There is a suicidal mushroom.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms are absolutely badass.<\/p>\n<p>There are over 14,000 different types of mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>All mushrooms are edible, but some are only edible once.<\/p>\n<p>Poisonous mushrooms are called toadstools.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty types of mushrooms can digest plastic;<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms are literally saving the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The Death Cap mushroom is one of the deadliest<\/p>\n<p>organisms on earth. More than 350 million years ago,<\/p>\n<p>mushrooms were over 24 feet tall. Ancient Egyptians<\/p>\n<p>reserved mushrooms for royalty,<\/p>\n<p>Because they are a gift from the God Osiris.<\/p>\n<p>Many cultures view mushrooms as gods, spiritual<\/p>\n<p>and medicinal tools, and portals to magical realms.<\/p>\n<p>There are 26 Mushroom Houses built in America;<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms make an incredible design.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms are the definition of cottage core<\/p>\n<p>And hygge aesthetic, a safe little umbrella as a home<\/p>\n<p>Under which nothing bad can ever happen.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms almost always grow in groups.<\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms stay together for protection<\/p>\n<p>Without even knowing it. Mushrooms are gateways<\/p>\n<p>To greater things, natural metaphors that there is more<\/p>\n<p>To the Universe than meets the eye beyond the oceans<\/p>\n<p>And sun and stars and moon and that which is known and that<\/p>\n<p>Which is not. Mushrooms are literally going to take over the world<\/p>\n<p>So lets just spend this time in our little mushroom home,<\/p>\n<p>toads living in our own little world<\/p>\n<p>Where nothing bad can ever happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mushrooms evolved to decompose trees. Mushrooms grow by flooding their cells with water. Mushrooms are alien organisms genetically closer to humans than plants which live on food, Water, and oxygen. Mushrooms are the largest life source on earth; Their roots expand for miles in search&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136094,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126460\/revisions\/136094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}