{"id":414515,"date":"2017-12-08T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cf1a1d0415cb707e5ae2304ce7c48920"},"modified":"2017-12-08T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:10:19","slug":"a-glass-of-whisky-could-help-you-get-your-head-around-deep-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=414515","title":{"rendered":"A glass of whisky could help you get your head around deep time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish geologist James Hutton made a proposal in 1788 that, at the time, was extraordinarily controversial. He described Earth as a &#8220;beautiful machine&#8221;, constantly subjected to long-term decay and regeneration, that could only be understood over many millions of years. This may not sound that contentious, but the challenge this posed to humanity&#8217;s sense of time was substantial. Popular contemporary estimates of Earth&#8217;s age, such as Bishop Ussher&#8217;s calculation that it was created in 4,004 BC, were dwarfed by the magnitude of what Hutton described.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish geologist James Hutton made a proposal in 1788 that, at the time, was extraordinarily controversial. He described Earth as a &#8220;beautiful machine&#8221;, constantly subjected to long-term decay and regeneration, that could only be understood over &#8230;<\/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-414515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414515","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=414515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414516,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414515\/revisions\/414516"}],"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=414515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}