{"id":1107,"date":"2009-01-06T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2009-01-06T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:12:00","slug":"needed-druids-with-scuba-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Needed: Druids with Scuba Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the news of a <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/stonehenge-beneath-waters-of-lake.html\">possible stone circle under Lake Michigan<\/a> has been &#8220;surprisingly under-reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>If verified, the carvings could be as much as 10,000 years old \u2013 coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the news of a possible stone circle under Lake Michigan has been &#8220;surprisingly under-reported.&#8221; If verified, the carvings could be as much as 10,000 years old \u2013 coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[20,22],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=558","url_meta":{"origin":1107,"position":0},"title":"Under Southern Skies","author":"Chas S. 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