{"id":8935,"date":"2014-10-02T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2014-10-02T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:02:59","slug":"space-colonies-from-the-bbc-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"Space colonies from the BBC perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An overview of space settlement possibilities:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20141002-time-to-plan-a-space-colony\" target=\"_d\">The expert guide to space colonies &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overview of space settlement possibilities:\u00a0The expert guide to space colonies &#8211; BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2k7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5522,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5522","url_meta":{"origin":8935,"position":0},"title":"Carnival of Space #330 &#8211; Next Big Future","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NextBigFuture.com hosts the latest Carnival of Space. 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