{"id":1704,"date":"2010-01-02T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2010-01-02T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T11:43:21","slug":"the-great-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"The Great Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many interesting facts  I read in the Christopher Potter book &#8220;You Are Here&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/science.html#YAH\">here<\/a>] &#8211; which I&#8217;ve just finished &#8211; is that, during the Permian period of around 250 million years ago, up to 96% of all species then on earth was destroyed &#8211; possibly as a result of a meteor. You can read more about this astonishing period &#8211; known as The Great Dying &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2002\/28jan_extinction.htm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf things had been just a little worse, you wouldn&#8217;t be here to read this. Doesn&#8217;t that provide a cheerful start to the year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many interesting facts I read in the Christopher Potter book &#8220;You Are Here&#8221; [my review here] &#8211; which I&#8217;ve just finished &#8211; is that, during the Permian period of around 250 million years ago, up to 96% of all species then on earth was destroyed &#8211; possibly as a result of a meteor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}