{"id":83307,"date":"2018-10-04T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-rock-used-as-a-doorstop-for-the-past-30-years-turns-out-to-be-a-meteorite-valued-at-100k"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:55","slug":"a-rock-used-as-a-doorstop-for-the-past-30-years-turns-out-to-be-a-meteorite-valued-at-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-rock-used-as-a-doorstop-for-the-past-30-years-turns-out-to-be-a-meteorite-valued-at-100k","title":{"rendered":"A rock used as a doorstop for the past 30 years turns out to be a meteorite valued at $100K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMQbk1Rcnvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically,\u201d Sibescu said.<\/p>\n<p>For double verification, a slice of it was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, which validated it was in fact a meteorite, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>The rock arrived on Earth sometime in the 1930s, according its owner, who obtained it in 1988 when he bought a farm in Edmore, about 30 miles southwest of Mount Pleasant. While touring the property, the man spotted the rock propping open a door and asked the farmer what it was.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/04\/us\/meteorite-doorstop-michigan-trnd\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/04\/us\/meteorite-doorstop-michigan-trnd\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically,\u201d Sibescu said. For double verification, a slice of it was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, which validated it was in fact a meteorite, according to the press release. The rock arrived on Earth sometime in the 1930s, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83307","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83415,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83307\/revisions\/83415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}