{"id":34625,"date":"2017-02-16T18:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/meet-zealandia-earths-latest-continent"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:55","slug":"meet-zealandia-earths-latest-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/meet-zealandia-earths-latest-continent","title":{"rendered":"Meet Zealandia: Earth\u2019s latest continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-zealandia-earths-latest-continent.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand might be Australia\u2019s smaller neighbor but it\u2019s sitting on a massive new continent scientists have named \u201cZealandia,\u201d according to a publication released by The Geological Society of America.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand and Australia might be able to finally give each other more breathing room. It turns out they sit on separate continents. New Zealand calls a 1.8 million square mile land mass known as Zealandia home. This new continent also includes New Caledonia, along with several other territories and island groups.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a potential continent in this area has been around for some time. Geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk coined the term Zealandia in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/16\/travel\/zealandia-new-continent-discovered\/\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/16\/travel\/zealandia-new-continent-discovered\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand might be Australia\u2019s smaller neighbor but it\u2019s sitting on a massive new continent scientists have named \u201cZealandia,\u201d according to a publication released by The Geological Society of America. New Zealand and Australia might be able to finally give each other more breathing room. It turns out they sit on separate continents. New Zealand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48835,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625\/revisions\/48835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}