{"id":83818,"date":"2018-10-20T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-eternal-quest-for-aether-the-cosmic-stuff-that-never-was"},"modified":"2018-10-20T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T01:07:50","slug":"the-eternal-quest-for-aether-the-cosmic-stuff-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-eternal-quest-for-aether-the-cosmic-stuff-that-never-was","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal Quest for Aether, the Cosmic Stuff That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-eternal-quest-for-aether-the-cosmic-stuff-that-never-was.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aristotle called it the fifth element. Alchemists thought it was the key to the philosopher\u2019s stone. Scientists believed it was the stuff light moved through. But it never existed at all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/energy\/a23895030\/aether\/\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/energy\/a23895030\/aether\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle called it the fifth element. Alchemists thought it was the key to the philosopher\u2019s stone. Scientists believed it was the stuff light moved through. But it never existed at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83818","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}