(Things that sound dirty, but aren’t.)<\/p>\n
“Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food”<\/a><\/strong> in the Feb. 29, 2008 New York Times<\/a><\/strong> is about the Global Vault. The vault is a high tech, high security storage facility for all kinds of seeds from collections all over the world. The seeds are being stored as a safety net for maintaining biodiversity to mitigate the potential effects of global warming or some kind of large-scale disaster (natural, man-made or pest-induced). <\/p>\n Fascinating<\/em>. <\/p>\n Fun fact: The world has 1,200 types of bananas. Wow, that’s a lot of bananas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Things that sound dirty, but aren’t.) “Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food” in the Feb. 29, 2008 New York Times is about the Global Vault. The vault is a high tech, high security storage facility for all kinds of seeds from collections all over the world. The seeds are being stored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-food","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}