{"id":6698,"date":"2024-10-04T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna.wpenginepowered.com\/spermaceti\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:10:56","slug":"spermaceti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/spermaceti\/","title":{"rendered":"Spermaceti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A liquid substance at body temperature, and waxy solid on lower temperatures, found in the heads of sperm and bottlenose whales. Humans used this substance in cosmetics, wax candles, ointments, textile finishing, and as industrial lubricant (<g id=\"gid_0\">Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica<\/g>). <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Spermaceti_Credit-Genevieve-Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 688px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 688\/545;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">A sample of spermaceti wax, a spermaceti candle, and a jar of sperm oil \u00a9 Genevieve Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liquid substance at body temperature, and waxy solid on lower temperatures, found in the heads of sperm and bottlenose whales. Humans used this substance in cosmetics, wax candles, ointments, textile finishing, and as industrial lubricant (Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica). A sample of spermaceti wax, a spermaceti candle, and a jar of sperm oil \u00a9 Genevieve Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,127,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-kl-gl","category-glossary-kl-gl","category-s-kl-gl"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}