{"id":86953,"date":"2019-01-23T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/dont-bring-extinct-creatures-back-to-life"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T18:22:20","slug":"dont-bring-extinct-creatures-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/dont-bring-extinct-creatures-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Bring Extinct Creatures Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-bring-extinct-creatures-back-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if woolly mammoths could walk the planet once again? De-extinction \u2013 or the process of creating an organism which is a member of, or closely resembles, an extinct species \u2013 was once a sci-fi fantasy only imaginable in films like \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d But recent biological and technological breakthroughs indicate that reviving extinct creatures could become a reality. Even if advancements get us there, should we do it?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligencesquaredus.org\/debates\/dont-bring-extinct-creatures-back-life\">https:\/\/www.intelligencesquaredus.org\/debates\/dont-bring-ext...-back-life<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if woolly mammoths could walk the planet once again? De-extinction \u2013 or the process of creating an organism which is a member of, or closely resembles, an extinct species \u2013 was once a sci-fi fantasy only imaginable in films like \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d But recent biological and technological breakthroughs indicate that reviving extinct creatures could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86953","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\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}