{"id":569019,"date":"2019-01-17T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=94829116c069be0df1d680c44d975ba9"},"modified":"2019-01-17T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:03:38","slug":"china-tried-to-grow-cotton-on-the-moon-but-it-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=569019","title":{"rendered":"China Tried To Grow Cotton On The Moon, But It Didn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/01\/17\/ap_19014394321842_wide-79fade46c83a7fc1b65a8242198b137b1c6a1a4e.jpg?s=600' alt='The rover Yutu-2 is seen in a photo taken by the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe on Jan. 11. Inside the probe is a biosphere harboring, whose seeds China now says have died.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The cotton seeds aboard a lunar lander had encouraged hopes that plants could grow on the moon. But days after China boasted of the experiment&#8217;s success, the tender shoots died.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: AP via China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=686169520' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cotton seeds aboard a lunar lander had encouraged hopes that plants could grow on the moon. But days after China boasted of the experiment&#8217;s success, the tender shoots died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1987,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569019","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\/1987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569020,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569019\/revisions\/569020"}],"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=569019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}