{"id":35734,"date":"2017-03-30T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/first-on-the-martian-menu-spuds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:05","slug":"first-on-the-martian-menu-spuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/first-on-the-martian-menu-spuds","title":{"rendered":"First on the Martian menu: spuds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-on-the-martian-menu-spuds.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 If human beings finally reach Mars, they may find themselves depending on the humble, if hardy potato.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Peru have used a simulator that mimics the harsh conditions on the Red Planet to successfully grow a small potato plant.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an experiment straight out of the 2015 Hollywood movie \u201cThe Martian\u201d that scientists say may also benefit arid regions already feeling the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e30ab58b21814cdd9ca440fa33252466\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/e30ab58b21814cdd9ca440fa33252466<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 If human beings finally reach Mars, they may find themselves depending on the humble, if hardy potato. Scientists in Peru have used a simulator that mimics the harsh conditions on the Red Planet to successfully grow a small potato plant. It\u2019s an experiment straight out of the 2015 Hollywood movie \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58254,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734\/revisions\/58254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}