{"id":223875,"date":"2025-10-24T04:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/mit-scientists-find-traces-of-earth-before-earth"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:16:14","slug":"mit-scientists-find-traces-of-earth-before-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/mit-scientists-find-traces-of-earth-before-earth","title":{"rendered":"MIT Scientists Find Traces of Earth Before Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-scientists-find-traces-of-earth-before-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth\u2019s first form\u2014unchanged for 4.5 billion years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth\u2019s first form\u2014unchanged for 4.5 billion years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223875","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=223875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}