{"id":1338,"date":"2023-06-20T20:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2023-06-28T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T21:02:07","slug":"the-controversial-quest-to-bring-back-the-tasmanian-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/the-controversial-quest-to-bring-back-the-tasmanian-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"The controversial quest to bring back the Tasmanian tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Tasmanian tiger is alive. Not literally alive\u2014there hasn\u2019t been a verified sighting of Australia\u2019s iconic marsupial predator for close to a century\u2014but alive in imagination, in memory, in cultural recognition, and in collective regret over its extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Alive, too, in the quest of a handful of scientists and entrepreneurs to \u201cde- extinct\u201d the species and bring it back to the wild.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/premium\/article\/thylacine-tasmanian-tiger-de-extinction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tasmanian tiger is alive. Not literally alive\u2014there hasn\u2019t been a verified sighting of Australia\u2019s iconic marsupial predator for close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-thylacine","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}