{"id":1862,"date":"2009-12-29T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2009-12-29T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:36:23","slug":"evolution-is-going-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/evolution-is-going-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution is going great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Onion comes another hilarious piece titled <em><a title=\"The Onion - Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobyte\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/evolution_going_great_reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite<\/a><\/em>. I so love evolutionary satire. Here&#8217;s a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful time to be alive,&#8221; said the tri-lobed creature, its protruding feelers and antennules twitching spasmodically with anticipation. &#8220;To be born during this, the Cambrian Explosion\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy, I couldn&#8217;t imagine a better period, really. It&#8217;s all happening right now! I mean, if things keep going the way they&#8217;re going, what with evolution taking off and everything, pretty soon we&#8217;ll have huge, towering reptiles roaming across the earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you imagine it? Reptiles!&#8221; the trilobite added. &#8220;I&#8217;m not even sure what those are!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Onion comes another hilarious piece titled Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite. I so love evolutionary satire. Here&#8217;s a bit&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful time to be alive,&#8221; said the tri-lobed creature, its protruding feelers and antennules twitching spasmodically with anticipation. &#8220;To be born during this, the Cambrian Explosion\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy, I couldn&#8217;t imagine a better period, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/evolution-is-going-great\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolution is going great!&#8221;<\/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":[13],"tags":[311,432,639,685,794,825],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-evolution","tag-humor","tag-pre-cambrian","tag-reptiles","tag-the-onion","tag-trilobyte","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}