{"id":1713,"date":"2020-01-05T07:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2020-01-05T07:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:06:54","slug":"life-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/life-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Malakof-188-Version-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-attachment-id=\"1714\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/life-returns\/malakof-188-version-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Malakof-188-Version-2-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-H1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1139681279&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Malakof-188-Version-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Malakof-188-Version-2-scaled.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Malakof-188-Version-2-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Malakof-188-Version-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1714\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The land at Malakoff Diggins State Park in California was devastated by the gold mining that started during the rush and continued until recent times.  Hillsides were demolished by high-pressure nozzles called monitors that washed the top soil down into processing ponds where the metal was extracted using poisonous chemicals such as arsenic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may take hundreds, if not thousands, of years for the land to recover, but even today life is slowly beginning to reclaim its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The land at Malakoff Diggins State Park in California was devastated by the gold mining that started during the rush and continued until recent times. Hillsides were demolished by high-pressure nozzles called monitors that washed the top soil down into processing ponds where the metal was extracted using poisonous chemicals such as arsenic. It may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-rD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}