{"id":23943,"date":"2019-07-18T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23943"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:10:18","slug":"not-just-any-old-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23943","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Any Old Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Not_Just_Any_Old_Rock.jpg\" alt=\"Not Just Any Old Rock\" class=\"wp-image-23944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Not_Just_Any_Old_Rock.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Not_Just_Any_Old_Rock-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Not_Just_Any_Old_Rock-768x803.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave Hole had tried everything. Rock saw. Drill. They all just bounced off. The damn rock would not crack. This was his last shot. He gripped the sledgehammer with two hands, raised it above his head, and brought it down as hard as he could. CLANGGG. Nothing. Not even a scratch. &#8220;What the hell is this thing?&#8221;, Mr Hole thought to himself. The answer, it turned out, was something not of this Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/prospector-s-mystery-rock-was-no-nugget-but-something-much-rarer-20190716-p527pi.html\">https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/prospector-s-mystery-rock-was-no-nugget-but-something-much-rarer-20190716-p527pi.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hole had tried everything. Rock saw. Drill. They all just bounced off. The damn rock would not crack. This was his last shot. He gripped the sledgehammer with two hands, raised it above his head, and brought it down as hard as he could. CLANGGG. Nothing. Not even a scratch. &#8220;What the hell is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Just Any Old Rock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23945,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions\/23945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}