{"id":44409,"date":"2017-01-07T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T01:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=44409"},"modified":"2018-05-12T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T12:33:51","slug":"virolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/virolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Virolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of interesting comments lately here at TSZ that referred to viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Are viruses pre-biotic entities, and did they contribute to the origin of life?<\/p>\n<p>Are viruses alive?<\/p>\n<p>Do viruses evolve?<\/p>\n<p>Are viruses an example of what evolution is capable of?<\/p>\n<p>Did viruses contribute to the evolution of life?<\/p>\n<p>Should be fodder for some discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of interesting comments lately here at TSZ that referred to viruses. Are viruses pre-biotic entities, and did they contribute to the origin of life? Are viruses alive? Do viruses evolve? Are viruses an example of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/virolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,81,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-origin-of-life","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}