{"id":96773,"date":"2025-08-28T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=96773"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:08:03","slug":"why-the-egusi-a-nigerian-melon-seeds-journey-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=96773","title":{"rendered":"Why the egusi? A Nigerian melon seed&#8217;s journey into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS &#8211; When Nigerian researcher Temidayo Oniosun chose a melon seed called the egusi to send up on a space mission, it wasn&#8217;t just about science &#8211; it was about symbolism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/why-the-egusi-a-nigerian-melon-seeds-journey-into-space\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS &#8211; When Nigerian researcher Temidayo Oniosun chose a melon seed called the egusi to send up on a space mission, it wasn&#8217;t just about science &#8211; it was about symbolism. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-96773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}