{"id":42171,"date":"2012-04-16T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/16\/tektite-a-glassy-mineral-of-meteoric-origin-not\/"},"modified":"2017-07-02T02:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T02:39:48","slug":"tektite-a-glassy-mineral-of-meteoric-origin-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/16\/tektite-a-glassy-mineral-of-meteoric-origin-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-42171 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/16\/tektite-a-glassy-mineral-of-meteoric-origin-not\/attachment\/42172\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2jw4cFJGS1rsbe2bo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2jw4cFJGS1rsbe2bo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2jw4cFJGS1rsbe2bo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>tektite, a glassy mineral of meteoric origin.<\/p>\n<p>not even joking, fate has been preparing me for this book. I went to find what types of clear minerals were found in Libya, and golden desert glass &#8211; a form of tektite &#8211; was the first one. and I once found a significant piece of tektite (though we spent YEARS trying to figure out if it was a meteorite or something else) when I was young, on a family vacation in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tektite, a glassy mineral of meteoric origin. not even joking, fate has been preparing me for this book. I went to find what types of clear minerals were found in Libya, and golden desert glass &#8211; a form of tektite &#8211; was the first one. and I once found a significant piece of tektite (though &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/04\/16\/tektite-a-glassy-mineral-of-meteoric-origin-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7957,11556,11783,11782,6545,11781],"class_list":["post-42171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-god-grown-old","tag-aggo","tag-libya","tag-mineral","tag-research","tag-tektite","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42173,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42171\/revisions\/42173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}