{"id":40,"date":"2012-02-07T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/piltdown-man-another-case-in-which-the-science-is-settled"},"modified":"2012-02-07T02:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:35:49","slug":"piltdown-man-another-case-in-which-the-science-is-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Piltdown Man: Another Case in Which &#8220;The Science Is Settled&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Piltdown-gang-008.jpg\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/sidelines\/Piltdown-gang-008.jpg\" width=\"360\" \/> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unearthed in a gravel pit at Piltdown<\/strong> in East Sussex and revealed to the outside world exactly a century ago,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>those shards of skull were part of a scientific scam that completely  fooled leading palaeontologists. For decades they believed they were the  remains of a million-year-old apeman, an individual who possessed a  large brain but primitive jawbone and teeth. &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/feb\/05\/piltdown-man-archaeologys-greatest-hoax?commentpage=1#start-of-comments\" title=\"Piltdown Man: British archaeology&#39;s greatest hoax | Robin McKie | Science | The Observer\">Piltdown Man: British archaeology&#39;s greatest hoax The Observer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h6>Reposted from <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/americandigest.org\/<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthed in a gravel pit at Piltdown in East Sussex and revealed to the outside world exactly a century ago, those shards of skull were part of a scientific scam that completely fooled leading palaeontologists. For decades they believed they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1775,1773],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}