{"id":184699,"date":"2012-02-11T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/11\/this-isnt-water-its-shoggoth-blood\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T02:06:00","slug":"this-isnt-water-its-shoggoth-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/11\/this-isnt-water-its-shoggoth-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"This Isn&#8217;t Water, It&#8217;s Shoggoth Blood!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian researchers in Antarctica have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Latest-News-Wires\/2012\/0210\/Putin-hails-Antarctic-lake-discovery-as-great-event-promises-awards\">drilled through more than 2 miles of ice and extracted a ten million year old water sample<\/a> from &#8220;Lake Vostok&#8221; underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Between the novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. (writing as Don A. Stuart), the oeuvre of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, and John Carpenter&#8217;s take on cinematic take on Antarctic science, this is <b>not<\/b> something that I find particularly reassuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian researchers in Antarctica have drilled through more than 2 miles of ice and extracted a ten million year old water sample from &#8220;Lake Vostok&#8221; underneath. Between the novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. (writing as Don A. Stuart), the oeuvre of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, and John Carpenter&#8217;s take on cinematic take on Antarctic science, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}