{"id":156868,"date":"2023-02-02T22:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/earths-inner-core-may-right-now-be-in-the-process-of-changing-direction"},"modified":"2023-02-02T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:36:18","slug":"earths-inner-core-may-right-now-be-in-the-process-of-changing-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/earths-inner-core-may-right-now-be-in-the-process-of-changing-direction","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Inner Core May Right Now Be in The Process of Changing Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-inner-core-may-right-now-be-in-the-process-of-changing-direction3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Few of us give much thought to Earth\u2019s swirling, spinning contents until some sudden movement, an earthquake or a volcanic eruption, jolts us to our senses.<\/p>\n<p>Geoscientists, though, are a little more clued into the dynamics of Earth\u2019s guts, and have just discovered that Earth\u2019s solid inner iron core \u2013 which usually spins within a near-frictionless molten outer envelope \u2013 appears to have slowed to a grinding halt.<\/p>\n<p>Before anybody panics and searches for a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Core\">a terrible 20-year-old science fiction movie<\/a> predicting such an event in hopes of inspiring a solution, it\u2019s not the first time record of such an event. It\u2019s not even the first in recent history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few of us give much thought to Earth\u2019s swirling, spinning contents until some sudden movement, an earthquake or a volcanic eruption, jolts us to our senses. Geoscientists, though, are a little more clued into the dynamics of Earth\u2019s guts, and have just discovered that Earth\u2019s solid inner iron core \u2013 which usually spins within a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156868","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=156868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}