{"id":218935,"date":"2025-07-29T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/virginia-opossums-the-american-marsupials-that-have-barely-changed-since-the-time-of-the-dinosaurs"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:05:15","slug":"virginia-opossums-the-american-marsupials-that-have-barely-changed-since-the-time-of-the-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/virginia-opossums-the-american-marsupials-that-have-barely-changed-since-the-time-of-the-dinosaurs","title":{"rendered":"Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virginia-opossums-the-american-marsupials-that-have-barely-changed-since-the-time-of-the-dinosaurs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218935","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}