{"id":221226,"date":"2025-08-31T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/how-did-life-get-multicellular-five-simple-organisms-could-have-the-answer"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:07:58","slug":"how-did-life-get-multicellular-five-simple-organisms-could-have-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/how-did-life-get-multicellular-five-simple-organisms-could-have-the-answer","title":{"rendered":"How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-did-life-get-multicellular-five-simple-organisms-could-have-the-answer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.<\/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-221226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221226","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=221226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}