{"id":966,"date":"2009-09-13T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2009-09-13T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:32:35","slug":"a-moment-of-silence-for-one-of-the-greatest-humanitarians-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/a-moment-of-silence-for-one-of-the-greatest-humanitarians-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"A moment of silence for one of the greatest humanitarians ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Borlaug\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Borlaug<\/a> died yesterday. You may not have heard of him, in spite of the fact that his work helped save the lives of over a billion people. I <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005319.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>, earlier this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take a moment to wish a happy 95th birthday to possibly the greatest contributor to human life and health in history, Norman Borlaug. If you haven&#8217;t heard of him, it&#8217;s not terribly surprising . . . his research and its application have saved the lives of possibly a billion people, but it hasn&#8217;t been the sort of work that garners a lot of celebrity attention. Unlike most revolutionaries, his Green Revolution measurably added to the health, wealth, and happiness of the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Borlaug died yesterday. You may not have heard of him, in spite of the fact that his work helped save the lives of over a billion people. I wrote, earlier this year: Take a moment to wish a happy 95th birthday to possibly the greatest contributor to human life and health in history, Norman [&hellip;]<\/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":[16],"tags":[242,260],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-biotechnology","tag-greenrevolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}