{"id":217318,"date":"2025-07-07T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-strangest-microbe-ever-found-straddles-the-line-between-life-and-non-life"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:04:25","slug":"the-strangest-microbe-ever-found-straddles-the-line-between-life-and-non-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-strangest-microbe-ever-found-straddles-the-line-between-life-and-non-life","title":{"rendered":"The Strangest Microbe Ever Found Straddles The Line Between Life and Non-Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-strangest-microbe-ever-found-straddles-the-line-between-life-and-non-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered archaeon blurs the boundary between cells and viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered archaeon blurs the boundary between cells and viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217318","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}