{"id":671270,"date":"2010-02-21T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.pacificviews.org:\/\/18280e009668ad246ad43606461a458d"},"modified":"2010-02-21T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:18:21","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/671270","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Death of Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This American Life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=401\">this week<\/a>, one of the pieces covered the life of Lucy, a Chimpanzee who was raised by human parents from WNYC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/episodes\/2010\/04\/09\">Radio Lab<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Lucy was only two years old when she was adopted by Dr. Maurice K. Temerlin and his wife Jane so he could conduct a psychological study on how close to human Lucy could become.  But Lucy got caught between humans and chimps in a way that she could never overcome.  Learning to live without humans after she grew up is an even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/carter.html\">more interesting story<\/a> than the one of her years with the Temerlins.  It&#8217;s a sad, compelling story and one that makes for some fascinating radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This American Life this week, one of the pieces covered the life of Lucy, a Chimpanzee who was raised by human parents from WNYC&#8217;s Radio Lab. Lucy was only two years old when she was adopted by Dr. Maurice K. Temerlin and his wife Jane so he could conduct a psychological study on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OCW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}