{"id":120622,"date":"2021-03-16T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/lightning-strikes-played-a-vital-role-in-lifes-origins-on-earth-study"},"modified":"2021-03-16T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:23:10","slug":"lightning-strikes-played-a-vital-role-in-lifes-origins-on-earth-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/lightning-strikes-played-a-vital-role-in-lifes-origins-on-earth-study","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes played a vital role in life\u2019s origins on Earth: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightning-strikes-played-a-vital-role-in-lifes-origins-on-earth-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say.<\/p>\n<p>Minerals delivered to Earth in meteorites more than 4 billion years ago have long been advocated as key ingredients for the development of life on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believed minimal amounts of these minerals were also brought to early Earth through billions of lightning strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say. Minerals delivered to Earth in meteorites more than 4 billion years ago have long been advocated as key ingredients for the development of life on our planet. Scientists believed minimal amounts of these minerals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120622","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}