{"id":4775,"date":"2016-08-31T20:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2022-03-20T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:14:09","slug":"how-did-animals-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/how-did-animals-came\/","title":{"rendered":"How Animals Came"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner tonight, Maggie asked &#8220;How did animals came?&#8221; A few clarifying questions revealed that she was interested in how animals arrived on the planet Earth&#8230; literally, where animals came from. We talked a bit about microbes and evolution, but she wasn&#8217;t especially interested. After some consideration, she produced her own version. Here&#8217;s what she had to say (scrawled down verbatim on a scrap of paper at the dinner table):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The ground came.<br \/>\nThe animals came from the ground.<br \/>\nAnd humans came from the animals.<br \/>\nHumans built houses and then<br \/>\nthey lived in houses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New career possibility: developer of creation myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner tonight, Maggie asked &#8220;How did animals came?&#8221; A few clarifying questions revealed that she was interested in how animals arrived on the planet Earth&#8230; literally, where animals came from. We talked a bit about microbes and evolution, but she wasn&#8217;t especially interested. After some consideration, she produced her own version. Here&#8217;s what she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/how-did-animals-came\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Animals Came<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[81,67],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maggie","tag-maggie","tag-maggie-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7461,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/7461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}