{"id":2554,"date":"2021-09-16T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:55:38","slug":"colossal-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Colossal Fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s bring the wooly mammoth back to life.<\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s time we start to practice &#8216;de-extinction.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div>Genetically reengineered elephants<\/div>\n<div>would save the tundra. That is their distinction.<\/div>\n<div>The herds would roam the Arctic<\/div>\n<div>with its melting permafrost,<\/div>\n<div>knocking down sun-stealing trees<\/div>\n<div>where grassland has been lost.<\/div>\n<div>The light-reflecting tundra<\/div>\n<div>locks in carbon and methane.<\/div>\n<div>Some bioethicists have called the idea insane.<\/div>\n<div>But, what the hell, we&#8217;re splicing cows,<\/div>\n<div>pigs, vegetables and fruit.<\/div>\n<div>If woolies could stop climate change,<\/div>\n<div>genetics becomes moot.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s bring the wooly mammoth back to life. It&#8217;s time we start to practice &#8216;de-extinction.&#8217; Genetically reengineered elephants would save the tundra. That is their distinction. The herds would roam the Arctic with its melting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2554\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}