{"id":229554,"date":"2026-01-22T01:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/life-on-earth-may-have-started-with-a-frozen-poison"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:39:47","slug":"life-on-earth-may-have-started-with-a-frozen-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/life-on-earth-may-have-started-with-a-frozen-poison","title":{"rendered":"Life on Earth May Have Started With a Frozen Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-on-earth-may-have-started-with-a-frozen-poison.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A chemical infamous for its toxicity may have played a surprising role in launching life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chemical infamous for its toxicity may have played a surprising role in launching life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229554","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}