{"id":227906,"date":"2025-12-27T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-did-bronze-age-plague-spread-a-sheep-might-solve-the-mystery"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:03:07","slug":"how-did-bronze-age-plague-spread-a-sheep-might-solve-the-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-did-bronze-age-plague-spread-a-sheep-might-solve-the-mystery","title":{"rendered":"How did Bronze Age plague spread? A sheep might solve the mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-did-bronze-age-plague-spread-a-sheep-might-solve-the-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe\u2019s population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe\u2019s population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227906","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}