{"id":4106,"date":"2018-07-12T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/12\/the-obsessive-search-for-the-tasmanian-tiger\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:26:31","slug":"the-obsessive-search-for-the-tasmanian-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/12\/the-obsessive-search-for-the-tasmanian-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have no way to define extinction\u2014or existence\u2014other than through the limits of our own perception. For many years, an animal was considered extinct a half century after the last confirmed sighting. The new standard, adopted in 1994, is that there should be \u201cno reasonable doubt that the last individual has died,\u201d leaving us to debate which doubts are reasonable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/07\/02\/the-obsessive-search-for-the-tasmanian-tiger\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/07\/02\/the-obsessive-search-for-the-tasmanian-tiger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have no way to define extinction\u2014or existence\u2014other than through the limits of our own perception. For many years, an animal was considered extinct a half century after the last confirmed sighting. The new standard, adopted in 1994, is that there should be \u201cno reasonable doubt that the last individual has died,\u201d leaving us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-14e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}