{"id":6195,"date":"2010-08-08T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2010-08-08T06:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:09:21","slug":"the-smithsonian-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6195","title":{"rendered":"The Smithsonian to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/dinosaur\/2010\/08\/05\/relax-triceratops-really-did-exist\/\">Relax \u2014 Triceratops Really Did Exist<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Triceratops<\/em> (described in 1889) was named <strong>before<\/strong> <em>Torosaurus<\/em> (described in 1891). According to the rules by which scientists name organisms, this gives <em>Triceratops<\/em> priority, so the name \u201c<em>Triceratops<\/em>\u201d isn\u2019t going anywhere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh.  So at least we haven&#8217;t had another <em>Brontosaurus &#8211; Apatosaurus<\/em> debaclosaurus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relax \u2014 Triceratops Really Did Exist Triceratops (described in 1889) was named before Torosaurus (described in 1891). According to the rules by which scientists name organisms, this gives Triceratops priority, so the name \u201cTriceratops\u201d isn\u2019t going anywhere. Sigh. So at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6195\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}