{"id":4516,"date":"2022-10-10T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4516"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:56:55","slug":"the-red-planet-a-natural-history-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/the-red-planet-a-natural-history-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/red-planet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/red-planet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars<\/strong><\/em><strong>, by Simon Morden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simon, as his recent output shows, knows a thing or two about Mars. He\u2019s even held a bit of it in his hands without realising it \u2013 thought to be fair, no one else realised it at the time either. (They all thought it was just yer bog standard meteorite.) So now he\u2019s written a factual account of everything we know or can reasonably assume about the place, from billions of years ago until the near future. It\u2019s all in handy bite-sized chapters of a few pages, so it can be put down and picked up as many times as you want without trying to remember where you\u2019d got to, and it\u2019s packed full of fascinating information. It both makes you want to go there \u2013 for all that if the radiation didn\u2019t get you immediately, the silicosis would eventually \u2013 and makes you feel that you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars, by Simon Morden Simon, as his recent output shows, knows a thing or two about Mars. He\u2019s even held a bit of it in his hands without realising it \u2013 thought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/the-red-planet-a-natural-history-of-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4528,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4516\/revisions\/4528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}