{"id":200395,"date":"2024-11-29T03:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/man-keeps-a-rock-for-years-hoping-its-gold-it-turns-out-to-be-far-more-valuable"},"modified":"2024-11-29T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:28:27","slug":"man-keeps-a-rock-for-years-hoping-its-gold-it-turns-out-to-be-far-more-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/man-keeps-a-rock-for-years-hoping-its-gold-it-turns-out-to-be-far-more-valuable","title":{"rendered":"Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It\u2019s Gold. It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eHdMmDXsGQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary \u2013 a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.<\/p>\n<p>He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock \u2013 after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary \u2013 a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay. He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200395","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=200395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}