{"id":206643,"date":"2025-02-17T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/aliens-could-be-all-around-us-but-were-totally-unprepared-for-first-contact"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:23:04","slug":"aliens-could-be-all-around-us-but-were-totally-unprepared-for-first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/aliens-could-be-all-around-us-but-were-totally-unprepared-for-first-contact","title":{"rendered":"Aliens Could Be All Around Us\u2014But We\u2019re Totally Unprepared for \u2018First Contact\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aliens-could-be-all-around-us-but-were-totally-unprepared-for-first-contact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only a matter of time before we find the aliens, scientists say. So what should happen next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s only a matter of time before we find the aliens, scientists say. So what should happen next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206643","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}