{"id":23088,"date":"2023-08-01T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=23088"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:56:05","slug":"what-was-life-like-before-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/08\/01\/what-was-life-like-before-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"What was life like before EARTH?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw080123-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw080123-2.jpg\" alt=\"What was life like before EARTH?\" class=\"wp-image-23083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw080123-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw080123-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aw080123-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What was life like before EARTH? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, and anyone who says they do is offering a guess, possibly an educated one. Life on an exoplanet a million light years away may well have reached a complex megafauna stage millions of years before Earth. Or not. Maybe it&#8217;s turtles all the way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know, and anyone who says they do is offering a guess, possibly an educated one. Life on an exoplanet a million light years away may well have reached a complex megafauna stage millions of years before Earth. Or not. Maybe it&#8217;s turtles all the way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23094,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23088\/revisions\/23094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}