{"id":859,"date":"2007-02-19T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/preserved-frog-in-amber\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:24:02","slug":"preserved-frog-in-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/preserved-frog-in-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserved Frog in Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat article.  Somebody found a frog perfectly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/science\/02\/16\/frog.in.amber.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">preserved in amber<\/a> that is probably 25 million years old.  Anyway, the scientists want to drill this thing and get a sample of the frog&#8217;s DNA.  Which would of course allow him to clone it and re-create a long-lost species of killer frogs that would soon end all human life as we know it.  Think Jurassic Park and you&#8217;ve got it exactly.  Or maybe they would just hop around a lot, and eat mosquitoes.  Could be, you never know with these things.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I saw the article and immediately thought of that Bugs Bunny segment where the construction worker finds a frog in the concrete of the building he is demolishing.  It sings show tunes perfectly, but it only sings for him and eventually ruins him.  Some things we just aren&#8217;t meant to find&#8230;.. this frog is probably one of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat article. Somebody found a frog perfectly preserved in amber that is probably 25 million years old. Anyway, the scientists want to drill this thing and get a sample of the frog&#8217;s DNA. Which would of course allow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/preserved-frog-in-amber\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}