{"id":216385,"date":"2014-04-15T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T01:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/not-one-of-your-pertinent-ancestors-was-squashed\/"},"modified":"2014-04-15T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T01:50:34","slug":"not-one-of-your-pertinent-ancestors-was-squashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/not-one-of-your-pertinent-ancestors-was-squashed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life\u2019s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result \u2014 eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly \u2014 in you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><b>Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/b> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thedragoninmygarage.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thedragoninmygarage<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life\u2019s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result \u2014 eventually, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/not-one-of-your-pertinent-ancestors-was-squashed\/\" 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":[8409,22529,22372,3043,3902,261,22530,21962,185,21963,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216385"}],"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=216385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}