{"id":495649,"date":"2018-07-10T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7035ee81b413929e540b0a7a3e232864"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:30:02","slug":"a-long-fuse-the-population-bomb-is-still-ticking-50-years-after-its-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=495649","title":{"rendered":"A long fuse: &#8216;The Population Bomb&#8217; is still ticking 50 years after its publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The battle to feed all of humanity is over,&#8221; Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page of his 1968 best-seller, &#8220;The Population Bomb.&#8221; Because the &#8220;stork had passed the plow,&#8221; he predicted, &#8220;hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The battle to feed all of humanity is over,&#8221; Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page of his 1968 best-seller, &#8220;The Population Bomb.&#8221; Because the &#8220;stork had passed the plow,&#8221; he predicted, &#8220;hundreds of millions of peopl&#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-495649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495649","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=495649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495650,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495649\/revisions\/495650"}],"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=495649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}