{"id":17269,"date":"2013-07-23T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17269"},"modified":"2013-07-23T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:24:35","slug":"rip-hobbit-finder-mike-morwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/rip-hobbit-finder-mike-morwood\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Hobbit Finder Mike Morwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/hobbit-finder-mike-morwood-dies-of-cancer\/story-e6frgcjx-1226683974866\">The Australian<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE Gandalf of science, archeologist Mike Morwood, who helped find a new species of tiny humans dubbed the Hobbit, died yesterday after a year-long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Morwood&#8217;s legacy will be linked to the Indonesian island of Flores, where in 2003 he was part of a team that discovered Homo floresiensis, which rewrote the history books and changed our understanding of human evolution&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Australian THE Gandalf of science, archeologist Mike Morwood, who helped find a new species of tiny humans dubbed the Hobbit, died yesterday after a year-long battle with cancer. Professor Morwood&#8217;s legacy will be linked to the Indonesian island of Flores, where in 2003 he was part of a team that discovered Homo floresiensis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/rip-hobbit-finder-mike-morwood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Hobbit Finder Mike Morwood<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4ux","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}