{"id":1299,"date":"2011-12-09T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T05:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2011\/12\/09\/mothernaturenetwork-at-4841-years-old-this\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:18:14","slug":"mothernaturenetwork-at-4841-years-old-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2011\/12\/09\/mothernaturenetwork-at-4841-years-old-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1299 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='https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2011\/12\/09\/mothernaturenetwork-at-4841-years-old-this\/attachment\/1300\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lvhqm2Lwd81qd4vugo1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mothernaturenetwork.tumblr.com\/post\/13592000002\/at-4-841-years-old-this-ancient-bristlecone-pine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mothernaturenetwork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/wilderness-resources\/photos\/the-worlds-10-oldest-living-trees\/methuselah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Methuselah<\/a>\u2019s exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years old, was cut down by a U.S. Forest Service graduate student in 1964.) Today you can visit the grove where Methuselah hides, but you\u2019ll have to guess at which tree it is. Could this one be it?<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/wilderness-resources\/photos\/the-worlds-10-oldest-living-trees\/taking-the-long-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The world\u2019s 10 oldest living trees<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>trees are fucking dope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mothernaturenetwork: At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, Methuselah\u2019s exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}