{"id":813,"date":"2007-12-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/22\/the-sky-is-falling\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T18:00:00","slug":"the-sky-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/the-sky-is-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky is Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Mars (they do have a sky there, right?)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The planet Mars may be in for a collision from an asteroid headed its way. Scientists from NASA have been tracking the 160-foot-wide asteroid for some time now, and say the odds of it hitting the Red Planet are about 1 in 75. Back in 1908, Earth was hit by a similar asteroid, near Tunguska, Siberia. That impact flattened millions of trees and is thought to have left a crater that is now a lake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.smm.org\/buzz\/blog\/asteroid_could_hit_mars\">Details here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Mars (they do have a sky there, right?) The planet Mars may be in for a collision from an asteroid headed its way. Scientists from NASA have been tracking the 160-foot-wide asteroid for some time now, and say the odds of it hitting the Red Planet are about 1 in 75. Back in 1908, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/the-sky-is-falling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sky is Falling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","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-d7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}