{"id":103255,"date":"2016-04-29T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/29\/we-on-earth-have-just-awakened-to-the-great-oceans\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T08:23:10","slug":"we-on-earth-have-just-awakened-to-the-great-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/29\/we-on-earth-have-just-awakened-to-the-great-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Carl Sagan<br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/nasahistory.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">nasahistory<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/29\/we-on-earth-have-just-awakened-to-the-great-oceans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3832,185,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}