{"id":215,"date":"2006-02-27T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/extinctions-of-yore.htm"},"modified":"2019-12-30T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T14:26:28","slug":"extinctions-of-yore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/extinctions-of-yore\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinctions of Yore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Permian extinction of yore. If you can&#8217;t recall it, that&#8217;s perhaps because it happened 250 million years ago, and you&#8217;re not a geologist, or both.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a book on it out, now: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37dQlgn\"><em>Extinction<\/em>, by Douglas H. Erwin<\/a>, a Smithsonian paleobiologist. It&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/23\/AR2006022301685.html\">reviewed here<\/a> in a <em>Washington Post <\/em>piece by Joshua Foer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Permian extinction of yore. If you can&#8217;t recall it, that&#8217;s perhaps because it happened 250 million years ago, and you&#8217;re not a geologist, or both. There&#8217;s a book on it out, now: Extinction, by Douglas H. Erwin, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/extinctions-of-yore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,15,28],"tags":[857,414,729,727],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","category-nature","category-science","tag-douglas-h-erwin","tag-extinction","tag-joshua-foer","tag-permian-extinction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}