{"id":22660,"date":"2017-03-03T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/The-headline-exaggerates-and-New-Zealand-is-a-group-of-islands-not-a-single-island-as-the-article-implies"},"modified":"2017-03-03T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:01:10","slug":"the-headline-exaggerates-and-new-zealand-is-a-group-of-islands-not-a-single-island-as-the-article-implies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/03\/the-headline-exaggerates-and-new-zealand-is-a-group-of-islands-not-a-single-island-as-the-article-implies\/","title":{"rendered":"The headline exaggerates, and New Zealand is a group of islands, not a single island, as the article implies."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XbfYR1sQt4U\/WLiOJsiwudI\/AAAAAAAACKw\/MZPNEl8HD-YMMz8nYCg_YJMQp2UKGLkwACJoC\/s0\/cb17caf0-778a-4eac-bd0c-cce8da37d833.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The headline exaggerates, and New Zealand is a group of islands, not a single island, as the article implies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this is large and important news: an official proposal to use gene drives (genetically-engineered changes designed to spread through the whole population) to eliminate invasive pests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots and lots of due diligence is required, and it won&#8217;t happen soon, if it happens at all. But the conversation is happening, and that in itself is remarkable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Singularity Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natural Selection Is About to Be Overpowered by the First-Ever Mammalian Gene Drive <a href=\"http:\/\/suhub.co\/2meaZbW\">http:\/\/suhub.co\/2meaZbW<\/a><\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The headline exaggerates, and New Zealand is a group of islands, not a single island, as the article implies.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/03\/the-headline-exaggerates-and-new-zealand-is-a-group-of-islands-not-a-single-island-as-the-article-implies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}