{"id":105243,"date":"2024-12-27T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/?p=105243"},"modified":"2024-12-27T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:51:41","slug":"105243-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/105243-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A mysterious rock\/fossil that\u2019s been in the family since my great great great uncle plowed it up when farming. Any ideas ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:' color:><b>A mysterious rock\/fossil that\u2019s been in the family since my great great great uncle plowed it up when farming. Any ideas ?<br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-105246 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/writehorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/12%5C/A-mysterious-rock-fossil-thats-been-in-the-family-since-my-great-great-great-uncle-plowed-it-up-when-farming.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"728\"' height='\"696\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/A-mysterious-rock-fossil-thats-been-in-the-family-since-my-great-great-great-uncle-plowed-it-up-when-farming.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'><b>Answer: This is almost certainly the remains of gypsum-filled mud cracks, a gypsum cast or mold. Gypsum-filled mud cracks are well known by geologists, and found in ancient evaporate lake depots, but it\u2019s rare to see one weathered out like this specimen.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</b><p>A mysterious rock\/fossil that\u2019s been in the family since my great great great uncle plowed it up when farming. Any ideas ? Answer: This is almost certainly the remains of gypsum-filled mud cracks, a gypsum cast or mold. Gypsum-filled mud cracks are well known by geologists, and found in ancient evaporate lake depots, but it\u2019s\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":105246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-hacks"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/A-mysterious-rock-fossil-thats-been-in-the-family-since-my-great-great-great-uncle-plowed-it-up-when-farming.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105248,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105243\/revisions\/105248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></span></b></span></p>