{"id":1771,"date":"2004-12-13T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2018-07-30T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:10:58","slug":"1771","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/13\/1771\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/12\/13\/MNGPRAB3QC1.DTL\" target=\"_new\">Scientists clash over origin of &#8216;the Great Dying&#8217;:<br \/>\nVolcanic, celestial theories on extinction 250 million years ago take stage in S.F.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A cataclysm 250 million years ago wiped out nearly all life in the Earth&#8217;s oceans, and nearly three-quarters of the plants and animals on land vanished too. It was the greatest catastrophe the Earth has ever experienced &#8211; &#8211; but scientists who study such events are in sharp disagreement over what caused it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, scientists in San Francisco are divided: Is it the Bush administration&#8217;s environmental policies that rent the space-time continuum to cause a cataclysm in distant the past, or is it a Bush administration policy that has yet to pass?  Can good scientists stop the evil Edward H. Haliburton III, who many people don&#8217;t realize still plots maniacally in a lair in the Mojave Desert?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, a burst of triumphant fanfare will arise from this Science League retreat to save the future <i>and the past!<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists clash over origin of &#8216;the Great Dying&#8217;: Volcanic, celestial theories on extinction 250 million years ago take stage in S.F.: A cataclysm 250 million years ago wiped out nearly all life in the Earth&#8217;s oceans, and nearly three-quarters of the plants and animals on land vanished too. It was the greatest catastrophe the Earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20787,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/20787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}