{"id":2713,"date":"2024-07-04T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2024-07-04T18:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:36:58","slug":"stromatolites-in-hamburg-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/stromatolites-in-hamburg-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Stromatolites in Hamburg, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around the corner from \u00a0The Gingerbread Castle in Hamburg, NJ<\/a> you’ll find an extraordinary geological formation featuring ancient stromatolite fossils. Nestled in the middle of a mini-mansion community, like precious eggs guarded by a beige mother python, there’s a super-market-sized mound of gray-blue marble covered with pizza-sized psychedelic swirling circular bacteria fossils. I am kind of glad that the formation is obscured inside a community, because it keeps people from destroying it. Having spent most of my life in New Jersey, I’ve seen what Jersey people can do to something precious and irreplaceable. <\/p>\n

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Around the corner from \u00a0The Gingerbread Castle in Hamburg, NJ you’ll find an extraordinary geological formation featuring ancient stromatolite fossils. Nestled in the middle of a mini-mansion community, like precious eggs guarded by a beige mother python, there’s a super-market-sized …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[105,64],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geology","tag-105","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}