{"id":1100,"date":"2025-03-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T00:00:00","slug":"wooly-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/wooly-mice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooly Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_8414-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_8414-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_8414-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_8414-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_8414.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Woolly Mice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Have we learned nothing from Jurassic Park? Scientists who are Fucking around are getting ever so closer to the Find Out. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/04\/nx-s1-5299962\/woolly-mammoth-extinction-mice-genetic-engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">genetically modified mice<\/a> with qualities of the extinct woolly mammoth in hopes of doing the same with some Asian elephants to eventually be release into the arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just look at those things! Appears one already has chunks bitten out of its ear for fuck\u2019s sake. In the words of Dr. Malcolm, \u201cYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn&#8217;t stop to think if they should.\u201d Personally, I\u2019d rather focus on the saber tooth koala. We\u2019d at least have a better chance at outrunning those things once they got out of hand and broke free of their cages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can\u2019t end well. But they do like kind of cute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we learned nothing from Jurassic Park? Scientists who are Fucking around are getting ever so closer to the Find Out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[570,571,569],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jurassic-park","tag-woolly-mammoth","tag-woolly-mice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_8414.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}