{"id":721,"date":"2007-01-29T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T03:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/01\/29\/hobbit-declared-a-new-species-as-debate-continues\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T01:15:02","slug":"hobbit-declared-a-new-species-as-debate-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/01\/29\/721-hobbit-declared-a-new-species-as-debate-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbit Declared a New Species as Debate Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">New computerized casts of abnormally small Homo sapiens brains are reigniting the debate over the skeletal remains nicknamed &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; Ever since the 18,000-year-old remains of the three-foot-tall adult female hominid were unearthed in 2003 on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, scientists have argued whether the specimen was a human with an abnormally small head or represents a new species in the human family tree. The diminutive creature had a brain approximately one-third the size of modern adult humans. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20070129\/sc_livescience\/hobbitdeclaredanewspeciesasdebatecontinues\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New computerized casts of abnormally small Homo sapiens brains are reigniting the debate over the skeletal remains nicknamed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}