{"id":5482,"date":"2014-11-14T22:57:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T03:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2017-10-10T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:04:18","slug":"humans-almost-died-out-around-70-000-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/humans-almost-died-out-around-70-000-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans almost died out around 70 000 BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why haven&#8217;t I heard about this before? After an unbelievably huge volcano eruption, humans almost died out around 70 000 BC. The volcano is called Toba and its eruption is the biggest that scientists are aware of. Evidence suggests that the population was down to mere hundreds or thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/10\/22\/163397584\/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c\">How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why haven&#8217;t I heard about this before? After an unbelievably huge volcano eruption, humans almost died out around 70 000 BC. The volcano is called Toba and its eruption is the biggest that scientists are aware of. Evidence suggests that the population was down to mere hundreds or thousands of people. How Human Beings Almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11236,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/11236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}