{"id":83784,"date":"2018-10-18T06:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/cosmologist-martin-rees-gives-humanity-a-50-50-chance-of-surviving-the-21st-century"},"modified":"2018-10-18T06:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:22:23","slug":"cosmologist-martin-rees-gives-humanity-a-50-50-chance-of-surviving-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/cosmologist-martin-rees-gives-humanity-a-50-50-chance-of-surviving-the-21st-century","title":{"rendered":"Cosmologist Martin Rees gives humanity a 50\u201350 chance of surviving the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmologist-martin-rees-gives-humanity-a-50-50-chance-of-surviving-the-21st-century.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019In the medieval period, life was miserable and there wasn\u2019t anything people could do to improve it. Today, the gap between the way the world is and the way it could be is enormous.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But he\u2019s still an optimist.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2018\/10\/18\/17886974\/science-technology-climate-change-existential-threats-martin-rees\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2018\/10\/18\/17886974\/scien...artin-rees<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018\u2019In the medieval period, life was miserable and there wasn\u2019t anything people could do to improve it. Today, the gap between the way the world is and the way it could be is enormous. But he\u2019s still an optimist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83784","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}