{"id":120491,"date":"2021-03-12T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/we-may-never-find-life-on-mars-and-that-could-be-a-good-thing"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:25:21","slug":"we-may-never-find-life-on-mars-and-that-could-be-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/we-may-never-find-life-on-mars-and-that-could-be-a-good-thing","title":{"rendered":"We May Never Find Life on Mars\u2014And That Could Be a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-never-find-life-on-mars-and-that-could-be-a-good-thing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some disconcerting thoughts about the future of the human species:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<i>Perseverance<\/i>, the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some disconcerting thoughts about the future of the human species: Perseverance, the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}