{"id":785,"date":"2010-12-09T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=785"},"modified":"2010-12-09T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:41:45","slug":"zoo-illogical-ugly-animals-need-protection-from-extinction-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/zoo-illogical-ugly-animals-need-protection-from-extinction-too","title":{"rendered":"Zoo Illogical: Ugly Animals Need Protection from Extinction, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surviving species will &#8220;be the ones we decide to save,&#8221; Stokes says. If zoos decide not to save &#8220;ugly&#8221; animals, they could go extinct. Snails and insects, for example, almost never make it into zoos.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=zoo-illogical-ugly-animal\">Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surviving species will &#8220;be the ones we decide to save,&#8221; Stokes says. If zoos decide not to save &#8220;ugly&#8221; animals, they could go extinct. Snails and insects, for example, almost never make it into zoos. via Scientific American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}