{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=sixth.extinction+x-files\">X-Files<\/a> aside, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2042311&#038;thesection=news&#038;thesubsection=world\">UN is finally <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Eco\/Wave%20of%20extinctions%20sweeping%20the%20planet.html\">making &#8220;official&#8221;<\/a> what <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Eco\/Mass%20Extinction%20Underway,%20Majority%20of%20Biologists%20Say.html\">everyone has known for ages<\/a>: we are currently living through one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=great.extinctions\">Great Extinctions<\/a> of life on this planet. So far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=five+great+extinctions\">five<\/a> have been found in the fossil record, so that makes this the <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Eco\/Leakey%20-%20Sixth%20Extinction.html\">Sixth <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Eco\/Sixth%20Great%20Extinction.html\">Extinction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s on lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Files aside, the UN is finally making &#8220;official&#8221; 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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}