{"id":396,"date":"2004-08-11T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/extinction-of-less-improved-forms\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T17:07:00","slug":"extinction-of-less-improved-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/extinction-of-less-improved-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction of less-improved forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/tangled_bank_9\" \/>Tangled Bank #9<\/a> is now online over at <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/\">Pharyngula<\/a>.  The idea behind <a href=\"http:\/\/tangledbank.net\/\">Tangled Bank<\/a> is to collect together a weekly greatest hits of science\/nature posts in the blogosphere and stick them in one place for easy consumption.  The greatness of the posts themselves is decided upon by their authors; if only more things in life worked that way.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the TB posts are oriented toward the biological sciences; I sneaked myself in only on the basis of my <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/dinosaur-report-i.html\">dinosaur<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/dinosaur-report-ii.html\">reports<\/a>.  Maybe they should do more physical sciences?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangled Bank #9 is now online over at Pharyngula. The idea behind Tangled Bank is to collect together a weekly greatest hits of science\/nature posts in the blogosphere and stick them in one place for easy consumption. The greatness of the posts themselves is decided upon by their authors; if only more things in life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}