{"id":1168539,"date":"2017-07-15T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p059984n"},"modified":"2017-07-15T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T19:00:00","slug":"galapagos-islands-a-little-world-within-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/07\/15\/galapagos-islands-a-little-world-within-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Islands: A Little World Within Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"When Charles Darwin first saw the Galapagos Islands he was not impressed \u2013 he said that \u201cnothing could be less inviting than the first appearance\u201d. But later he recognised the unique nature of these islands, which he called \u201ca little world within itself\u201d. They set him thinking about how animals change and ultimately inspired his theory of evolution. Sarah Darwin follows in the footsteps of her great, great grandfather in this \u201clittle world within itself\u201d to see how the Galapagos islands themselves have evolved and changed since he visited in 1835\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p059984n\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Charles Darwin first saw the Galapagos Islands he was not impressed \u2013 he said that \u201cnothing could be less inviting than the first appearance\u201d. But later he recognised the unique nature of these islands, which he called \u201ca little world within itsel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599517,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168539\/revisions\/1599517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}