{"id":234773,"date":"2026-04-07T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-uncover-the-secret-glue-that-helps-soil-hold-water"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:23:48","slug":"scientists-uncover-the-secret-glue-that-helps-soil-hold-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-uncover-the-secret-glue-that-helps-soil-hold-water","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Uncover the Secret \u201cGlue\u201d That Helps Soil Hold Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-the-secret-glue-that-helps-soil-hold-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered a hidden molecular process that helps soils retain water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered a hidden molecular process that helps soils retain water.<\/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-234773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234773","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=234773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}