{"id":402261,"date":"2017-11-11T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bf55aa4c5957d4a91dd035e08e68d67d"},"modified":"2017-11-11T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:00:20","slug":"terra-incognita-the-planet-factory-and-the-undiscovered-islands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=402261","title":{"rendered":"Terra Incognita: &#8216;The Planet Factory&#8217; And &#8216;The Undiscovered Islands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/11\/09\/gettyimages-iwdayala0070c_wide-5640c81e259e171352900acb04a5648cb0615495.jpg?s=600' alt='Humanity has always wondered what's on the far shore \u2014 even if our guesses sometimes miss the mark.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Two new books about unreal islands and yet-to-be-real planets have much to tell us about what human beings want to know when we look around at the world \u2014 life is uncertain, and our fears need maps.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Antar Dayal\/Getty Images\/Illustration Works)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=561217363' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new books about unreal islands and yet-to-be-real planets have much to tell us about what human beings want to know when we look around at the world &mdash; life is uncertain, and our fears need maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402262,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402261\/revisions\/402262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}