{"id":199,"date":"2012-09-11T02:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2020-04-09T03:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T03:55:41","slug":"spanish-fly-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/spanish-fly-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Fly (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_200\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-200\" title=\"spanish-fly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fly-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish Fly\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fly-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fly-600x390.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fly.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spanish Fly a.k.a. Lytta Vesicatoria<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Spanish Fly is not a fly, it is a beetle.&nbsp; This beetle is crushed up and is then eaten.&nbsp; The cantharidin that it contains is supposed to work as a powerful aphrodisiac.&nbsp; However, it can be lethal.&nbsp; It is expelled from the body via urine, and it can make genitalia itch, swell and even leak bloody discharge.&nbsp; However, in some cases if the dose is too large Spanish Fly can cause fever, seizures, convulsions and ultimately death.&nbsp; Some love shops claim to sell potions that contain Spanish Fly but more often than not (fortunately) these potions are just imitations.&nbsp; The Spanish Fly did not just arrive on the aphrodisiac scene, in fact it dates all the way back to ancient Rome.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Fly is not a fly, it is a beetle.&nbsp; This beetle is crushed up and is then eaten.&nbsp; The cantharidin that it contains is supposed to work as a powerful aphrodisiac.&nbsp; However, it can be lethal.&nbsp; It is expelled from the body via urine, and it can make genitalia itch, swell and even [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[78,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}