{"id":5350,"date":"2020-11-23T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2020-11-23T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:08:38","slug":"on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One million species are facing extinction within the next decade. It is estimated that 200 species go extinct every day. PERC member Laura Jean McKay is taking part in On the Brink, an online event to raise awareness of this threat of extinction. Bringing together 20 writers and cultural figures, the event features readings of new work and speeches on the situations of specific animals, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Margaret Atwood<\/strong>\u00a0on the Tasmanian devil<\/li><li><strong>Homero Aridjis<\/strong>\u00a0on the Vaquita porpoise<\/li><li><strong>Emma Thompson<\/strong>\u00a0on the puffin<\/li><li><strong>Ben Okri<\/strong>\u00a0on the tiger<\/li><li>Taiwanese artist\u00a0<strong>Wu Ming-Yi\u00a0<\/strong>on the pangolin<\/li><li><strong>Bianca Jagger<\/strong>\u00a0on the eastern gorilla<\/li><li><strong>Judy Ling Wong<\/strong>\u00a0on the snow leopard<\/li><li><strong>Amitav Ghosh<\/strong>\u00a0on the Irrawaddy dolphin<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Brink begins Monday November 30th at 7pm GMT \/ Tuesday December 1st at 8am NZST. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/on-the-brink-tickets-128515073043\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"540\" data-attachment-id=\"5351\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/on-the-brink\/onthebrink\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?fit=1080%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"onthebrink\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?fit=1024%2C512\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?resize=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/onthebrink.jpeg?resize=100%2C50&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One million species are facing extinction within the next decade. It is estimated that 200 species go extinct every day. PERC member Laura Jean McKay is taking part in On the Brink, an online event to raise awareness of this threat of extinction. Bringing together 20 writers and cultural figures, the event features readings of new work and speeches on &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/on-the-brink\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3,49],"tags":[55,21,79],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-feral","tag-coexistence","tag-events","tag-extinction","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQ2HH-1oi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}