{"id":229810,"date":"2026-01-26T06:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/an-ocean-that-no-longer-exists-could-explain-the-origins-of-central-asias-mountains"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:03:39","slug":"an-ocean-that-no-longer-exists-could-explain-the-origins-of-central-asias-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/an-ocean-that-no-longer-exists-could-explain-the-origins-of-central-asias-mountains","title":{"rendered":"An Ocean That No Longer Exists Could Explain the Origins of Central Asia\u2019s Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ocean-that-no-longer-exists-could-explain-the-origins-of-central-asias-mountains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A vanished ocean may have secretly shaped Central Asia\u2019s mountains long before the Himalayas ever existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vanished ocean may have secretly shaped Central Asia\u2019s mountains long before the Himalayas ever existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229810","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=229810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}