{"id":1043,"date":"2002-05-21T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-21T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2002-05-21T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-21T20:04:00","slug":"the-sixth-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/05\/21\/16\/04\/the-sixth-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-Files<\/a> aside, the UN is finally <\/a>making “official”<\/a> what everyone has known for ages<\/a>: we are currently living through one of the Great Extinctions<\/a> of life on this planet. So far five<\/a> have been found in the fossil record, so that makes this the Sixth <\/a>Extinction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

May you live in interesting times indeed. I wonder what class of animals will take over on the top of the food chain after us mammals expire? My money’s on lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-Files aside, the UN is finally making “official” what everyone has known for ages: we are currently living through one of the Great Extinctions of life on this planet. So far five have been...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t