{"id":988,"date":"2005-07-14T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/14\/excitement-close-to-home\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:35","slug":"excitement-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/14\/excitement-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A scientist confirmed Wednesday that the mysterious bones found near San Jose&#8217;s Guadalupe River belong to an ancient and long-extinct Columbian mammoth, an elephant-like creature that roamed the Santa Clara Valley tens of thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/12129692.htm\">Mystery Solved: It&#8217;s a Mammoth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientist confirmed Wednesday that the mysterious bones found near San Jose&#8217;s Guadalupe River belong to an ancient and long-extinct Columbian mammoth, an elephant-like creature that roamed the Santa Clara Valley tens of thousands of years ago. &#8212;Mystery Solved: It&#8217;s a Mammoth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12558,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/12558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}