{"id":96205,"date":"2019-09-13T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/slime-how-algae-created-us-plague-us-and-just-might-save-us"},"modified":"2019-09-13T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:24:56","slug":"slime-how-algae-created-us-plague-us-and-just-might-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/slime-how-algae-created-us-plague-us-and-just-might-save-us","title":{"rendered":"Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/slime-how-algae-created-us-plague-us-and-just-might-save-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In <I>Slime<\/I>, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due. The result is engaging, occasionally icky, and deeply informative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<B>Elizabeth Kolbert, <i>New York Times<\/i>-bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner <i>The Sixth Extinction<\/i><\/B><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA book full of delights and surprises. Algae are the hidden rulers of our world, giving us oxygen, food, and energy. This is a beautiful evocation of the many ways that our past and future are entangled in their emerald strands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due. The result is engaging, occasionally icky, and deeply informative.\u201d \u2014Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times-bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sixth Extinction \u201cA book full of delights and surprises. Algae are the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96205","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}