{"id":186,"date":"2008-07-16T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-07-16T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:24:58","slug":"nature-walk-flint-nodules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Nature walk: flint nodules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/flint-nodules.jpg\" title=\"flint-nodules.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/flint-nodules.jpg\" alt=\"flint-nodules.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a hot summer&#8217;s day and the pleasure of heading for a nice cool cave.\u00a0 I like this one because it has a very low key presentation for visitors (apart from the sound and light show of a local legend), and also because of the lovely flint nodules studding all the walls.\u00a0 The really amazing thing about flint is that like limestone, it&#8217;s a rock composed from a living origin.\u00a0 The nodules form in burrows or other holes left by living things in the limestone as it was forming.\u00a0 The silica in the flint comes perhaps mostly from micro-organisms.\u00a0 Too cool.<\/p>\n<p>I love real caving, as long as I&#8217;m with a guide who knows what they&#8217;re doing, but I have to wait a couple of years before I can take my daughter.\u00a0 Mike does not love caving. When he was young, he went caving with a couple of buddies who thought guides were for wimps and unexpectedly spent a night lost in the darkness!\u00a0 Then when they got out, they got told off by the rescue services for being dumb.\u00a0 I guess it put him off for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a hot summer&#8217;s day and the pleasure of heading for a nice cool cave.\u00a0 I like this one because it has a very low key presentation for visitors (apart from the sound and light show of a local legend), and also because of the lovely flint nodules studding all the walls.\u00a0 The really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nature walk: flint nodules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}