{"id":2647,"date":"2007-08-20T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/oooh_that_smell_cant_you_smell_that_smell.html"},"modified":"2007-08-20T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:34:25","slug":"oooh_that_smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/oooh_that_smell.html","title":{"rendered":"Oooh That Smell, Can&#8217;t You Smell That Smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/dont_dump_on_th_1.html\">Amorphophallus titanum<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/32\/30_32fungus.html\">Elegant Stinkhorn<\/a>, Brooklyn leads the city in flora that evokes the odor of putrefying meat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The stench of raw meat has taken over parts of the Hillside Dog Park on Columbia Heights near Middagh Street. But don&#8217;t look for roadkill. The villain here is a slimy florescent orange stalk shooting up between the wood chips and covered with flies.<\/p>\n<p>Say hello to your new neighbor: the Elegant Stinkhorn mushroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillside Dog Park, which is covered in wood chips, is practically an all-you-can-eat buffet for the mushroom, which spends its time decomposing the moist, woody pieces.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The Stinkhorn&#8217;s eau de toilet is its aroma of decaying flesh, and the flies can&#8217;t get enough. Lured in by the scent, the flies grab some of the Stinkhorn&#8217;s sticky slime and spread the mushroom&#8217;s spores.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Amorphophallus titanum to the Elegant Stinkhorn, Brooklyn leads the city in flora that evokes the odor of putrefying meat: The stench of raw meat has taken over parts of the Hillside Dog Park on Columbia Heights near Middagh Street. But don&#8217;t look for roadkill. The villain here is a slimy florescent orange stalk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}