{"id":440098,"date":"2018-02-13T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=14af957a2d7b0e6a9726ccb1a2ad633d"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:16:01","slug":"genetic-limits-threaten-chickpeas-a-globally-critical-food-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=440098","title":{"rendered":"Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you missed the news that the price of hummus has spiked in Great Britain. The cause, as the New York Times reported on February 8: drought in India, resulting in a poor harvest of chickpeas. Far beyond making dips for pita bread, chickpeas are a legume of life-and-death importance\u2014especially in India, Pakistan, and Ethiopia where 1 in 5 of the world&#8217;s people depend on them as their primary source of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you missed the news that the price of hummus has spiked in Great Britain. The cause, as the New York Times reported on February 8: drought in India, resulting in a poor harvest of chickpeas. Far beyond making dips for pita bread, chickpeas are a legume of life-and-death importance&mdash;especially in India, Pakistan, and Ethiopia where 1 in 5 of the world&#8217;s people depend on them as their primary source of protein.<\/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-440098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440098","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=440098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440099,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440098\/revisions\/440099"}],"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=440098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}