{"id":26545,"date":"2012-02-20T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/next-best-thing-to-time-travel.html"},"modified":"2012-02-21T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T03:44:29","slug":"next-best-thing-to-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/next-best-thing-to-time-travel.html","title":{"rendered":"Next best thing to time travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing a plant from 30,000 years ago.  Science is <i>cool.<\/i>  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21498-plant-blooms-after-30000-years-in-permafrost.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news'>Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost &#8211; life &#8211; 20 February 2012 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom &#8211; and has become the oldest plant ever to be resurrected\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing a plant from 30,000 years ago. Science is cool. #ddtb Embedded Link Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost &#8211; life &#8211; 20 February 2012 &#8211; New Scientist A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom &#8211; and has become the oldest plant ever to be resurrected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,6],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-science","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25715,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/not-quite-ready-for-a-cactus-garden-yet-but.html","url_meta":{"origin":26545,"position":0},"title":"Not quite ready for a cactus garden yet, but","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jan-12 3:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The USDA has released a new plant zoning map of the US, reflecting overall warmer temps in the US (or, more specifically, higher low temps). 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