{"id":231485,"date":"2026-02-17T01:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-oldest-minerals-on-earth-are-rewriting-the-planets-origin-story"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:16:58","slug":"the-oldest-minerals-on-earth-are-rewriting-the-planets-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-oldest-minerals-on-earth-are-rewriting-the-planets-origin-story","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Minerals on Earth Are Rewriting the Planet\u2019s Origin Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oldest-minerals-on-earth-are-rewriting-the-planets-origin-story2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth\u2019s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth\u2019s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.<\/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-231485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231485","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=231485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}