{"id":4663,"date":"2010-11-29T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:52:53","slug":"a-big-chunk-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/a-big-chunk-of-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Chunk of Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest chunk of ice on Earth is the Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 14 million square kilometres and holds an astounding 30 million cubic kilometres of ice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4539\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4539\" title=\"greenland_ice_sheet\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/green_land_ice_sheet_Andrew_Davies.jpg\" alt=\"ice sheet\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/green_land_ice_sheet_Andrew_Davies.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/green_land_ice_sheet_Andrew_Davies-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/green_land_ice_sheet_Andrew_Davies-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Andrew Davies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/articles\/a\/antarctic_ice_sheet.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab your hat and mitts, we are heading off into the cold <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/green_land_ice_sheet_Andrew_Davies-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"ice sheet\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[292,231,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-4663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-antarctic","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-largest"},"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\/4663","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=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}