{"id":172709,"date":"2023-09-24T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/geologist-marie-tharp-mapped-the-ocean-floor-and-helped-solve-one-of-sciences-biggest-controversies"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:24:16","slug":"geologist-marie-tharp-mapped-the-ocean-floor-and-helped-solve-one-of-sciences-biggest-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/geologist-marie-tharp-mapped-the-ocean-floor-and-helped-solve-one-of-sciences-biggest-controversies","title":{"rendered":"Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science\u2019s biggest controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geologist-marie-tharp-mapped-the-ocean-floor-and-helped-solve-one-of-sciences-biggest-controversies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, geologist Marie Tharp turned depth measurements into detailed maps of the ocean floor. It led to her discovery of the Mid-Atlantic rift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1950s, geologist Marie Tharp turned depth measurements into detailed maps of the ocean floor. It led to her discovery of the Mid-Atlantic rift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172709","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}