{"id":221553,"date":"2025-09-08T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/formation-of-earths-continents-began-much-earlier-than-scientists-had-proposed"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:07:17","slug":"formation-of-earths-continents-began-much-earlier-than-scientists-had-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/formation-of-earths-continents-began-much-earlier-than-scientists-had-proposed","title":{"rendered":"Formation of Earth\u2019s continents began much earlier than scientists had proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/formation-of-earths-continents-began-much-earlier-than-scientists-had-proposed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists once believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists once believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221553","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}