{"id":103227,"date":"2020-03-03T22:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/when-giant-mushrooms-ruled-the-earth"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:45:19","slug":"when-giant-mushrooms-ruled-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/when-giant-mushrooms-ruled-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"When Giant Mushrooms Ruled the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-giant-mushrooms-ruled-the-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before trees overtook the land, earth was covered by giant mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>24 feet tall and three feet wide, these giant spires dotted the ancient landscape.<\/p>\n<p>A chemical analysis has shown that the 20-foot-tall (6-metre) organism with a tree-like trunk was a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before trees overtook the land, earth was covered by giant mushrooms. 24 feet tall and three feet wide, these giant spires dotted the ancient landscape. A chemical analysis has shown that the 20-foot-tall (6-metre) organism with a tree-like trunk was a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million 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-103227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103227","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=103227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}