{"id":101729,"date":"2020-02-01T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/30-million-year-old-praying-mantis-preserved-in-pristine-piece-of-amber"},"modified":"2020-02-01T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:43:20","slug":"30-million-year-old-praying-mantis-preserved-in-pristine-piece-of-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/30-million-year-old-praying-mantis-preserved-in-pristine-piece-of-amber","title":{"rendered":"30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/30-million-year-old-praying-mantis-preserved-in-pristine-piece-of-amber2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a well preserved praying mantis preserved in Dominican amber sold at auction for $6,000. The amber dates to the Oligocene period, about 33.9 million to 23 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, a well preserved praying mantis preserved in Dominican amber sold at auction for $6,000. The amber dates to the Oligocene period, about 33.9 million to 23 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}