{"id":4488,"date":"2022-11-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:53:34","slug":"aging-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg-facts\/aging-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever wonder how old those little grains of sand are? Researchers took this question to the Namib Sand Sea, in Africa, one of the largest and oldest deserts, and found that the grains of sand were more than a million years old!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_desert_sand1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_desert_sand1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_desert_sand1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/african_desert_sand1-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try and guess the number of candles on this birthday cake <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/african_desert_sand-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"sand desert\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[457,409,931],"tags":[279,121,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-4488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg-places","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-desert","11":"tag-oldest","12":"tag-sand"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}