{"id":407627,"date":"2017-11-23T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5a42e11ccefa09209c652fe441c1beb4"},"modified":"2017-11-23T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:20:02","slug":"why-saving-our-blue-planet-may-lie-in-the-hands-of-citizen-scientists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=407627","title":{"rendered":"Why saving our blue planet may lie in the hands of citizen scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 95% of the ocean is completely unexplored, unseen by human eyes. That naturally means that there are many marine environments that we don&#8217;t know much about, but that we&#8217;re still putting at risk from damaging activities such as bottom trawling. Meadows of seagrass \u2013 flowering plants that live in shallow, sheltered areas \u2013 are a prime example of such a habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 95% of the ocean is completely unexplored, unseen by human eyes. That naturally means that there are many marine environments that we don&#8217;t know much about, but that we&#8217;re still putting at risk from damaging activities such as bottom trawling. Meadows of seagrass &ndash; flowering plants that live in shallow, sheltered areas &ndash; are a prime example of such a habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407627","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407628,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407627\/revisions\/407628"}],"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=407627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}