{"id":80756,"date":"2018-07-19T06:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/time-for-the-meghalayan-a-new-geological-age-has-officially-been-declared"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:42:58","slug":"time-for-the-meghalayan-a-new-geological-age-has-officially-been-declared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/time-for-the-meghalayan-a-new-geological-age-has-officially-been-declared","title":{"rendered":"Time for the Meghalayan: A new geological age has officially been declared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-for-the-meghalayan-a-new-geological-age-has-officially-been-declared.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of debate, the International Chronostratigraphic Chart has officially been revised. What does that mean, exactly? Our current point in Earth\u2019s geological timeline has been updated so that we\u2019re now living in the Meghalayan age, which kicked off 4,200 years ago with a catastrophic two-century drought that destroyed several civilizations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/new-geological-age-declared-meghalayan\/55532\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/new-geological-age-declared-meghalayan\/55532\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of debate, the International Chronostratigraphic Chart has officially been revised. What does that mean, exactly? Our current point in Earth\u2019s geological timeline has been updated so that we\u2019re now living in the Meghalayan age, which kicked off 4,200 years ago with a catastrophic two-century drought that destroyed several civilizations.<\/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-80756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80756","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=80756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}