{"id":39991,"date":"2013-12-11T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/earth-invades-mars.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:07:14","slug":"earth-invades-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/earth-invades-mars.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth Invades Mars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">If signs of life, past or present, are found on Mars &#8230; it may be actual Earth life that got blasted there by asteroid \/ comet collisions with the Earth. \u00a0Interesting.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/m5X7uHOl0IdItTGO6SakAZ3Zeq0ezW-oiw1wTgVSC_HKgiXvbBcNAdbLn2YG4eSUxL-lJpQDp0Wx_o18fThohygR_v8sDb_Hyh8mw4i5-iRBSWuM7aAhv3KFvwQRiHD8Cd7A3qaJEWD8C4oZJZLnF2tIMD2JUIRN0jl4BIObcXbe=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-25201572'>Dinosaur impact &#8216;sent life to Mars&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/fbkZyj5f5Ue' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If signs of life, past or present, are found on Mars &#8230; it may be actual Earth life that got blasted there by asteroid \/ comet collisions with the Earth. \u00a0Interesting.\ufeff Dinosaur impact &#8216;sent life to Mars&#8217; View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/09\/too_frickin_coo.html","url_meta":{"origin":39991,"position":0},"title":"Too.  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