{"id":2855,"date":"2008-06-29T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/29\/darwins-bulldog\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T12:16:10","slug":"darwins-bulldog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/darwins-bulldog\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin&#8217;s Bulldog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8f89ed9a0dfe8b9e5ae56888da0e6a6a-Sir_Thomas_Henry_Huxley.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-8f89ed9a0dfe8b9e5ae56888da0e6a6a-Sir_Thomas_Henry_Huxley.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/center>On this day in 1895, T. H. Huxley died at the age of 70.  Huxley was known as &#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Bulldog&#8221; because of his defense of Darwin&#8217;s important work in evolution.  He debated Samuel Wilberforce in 1860, and people have been debating creationists since.Huxley invented the term &#8220;agnostic&#8221; and described himself as one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1895, T. H. Huxley died at the age of 70. Huxley was known as &#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Bulldog&#8221; because of his defense of Darwin&#8217;s important work in evolution. He debated Samuel Wilberforce in 1860, and people have been debating creationists since.Huxley invented the term &#8220;agnostic&#8221; and described himself as one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[247,147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-K3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855"}],"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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}