{"id":98658,"date":"2026-07-31T04:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/this-is-very-strange-ancient-smallpox-may-have-been-less-deadly\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:26:59","slug":"this-is-very-strange-ancient-smallpox-may-have-been-less-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/this-is-very-strange-ancient-smallpox-may-have-been-less-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Very Strange\u2019: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/science\/ancient-small-pox.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14216,3741,1683,192,6568,20156,390,1249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}