{"id":449590,"date":"2018-03-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1803842a611eeb9ae0949ed9669898e9"},"modified":"2018-03-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:59:00","slug":"life-hacking-life-the-scary-premise-of-annihilation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=449590","title":{"rendered":"Life Hacking Life: The Scary Premise Of &#8216;Annihilation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/07\/anh-ff-020r2_wide-0a00a990f915f7ed1c4035493e0b540fc4e962c7.jpg?s=600' alt='Natalie Portman plays Lena in Alex Garland's Annihilation, a fantasy sci-fi drama based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer.'\/><\/p>\n<p>As with <em>Ex Machina<\/em>, says Marcelo Gleiser, director Alex Garland is sending a warning: We are now hacking life itself and will continue to do so with growing efficiency. Are we creating our own doom?<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Paramount Pictures)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=591493843' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with <em>Ex Machina<\/em>, says Marcelo Gleiser, director Alex Garland is sending a warning: We are now hacking life itself and will continue to do so with growing efficiency. Are we creating our own doom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1720,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449590","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\/1720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449591,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449590\/revisions\/449591"}],"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=449590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}