{"id":4367,"date":"2026-04-22T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:24:47","slug":"another-first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"Another first contact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re not tired of first contact stories, because I&#8217;ve gone and written another one. Apparently this is what&#8217;s on my mind lately? Anyway here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-026-01069-8\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-026-01069-8\">Waiting for Them<\/a> in Nature Futures, go, read, enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;re not tired of first contact stories, because I&#8217;ve gone and written another one. Apparently this is what&#8217;s on my mind lately? Anyway here&#8217;s Waiting for Them in Nature Futures, go, read, enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}