{"id":3811,"date":"2012-02-10T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2012-02-19T09:29:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T15:29:04","slug":"top-stories-u-s-marines-posed-with-nazi-symbol-in-afghanistan-twin-suicide-attacks-rattle-syrian-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Meteorite Stands Between Town and Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ancient Meteorite Stands Between Town and Water Supply: <\/strong>The remains of a 1.5 mile-wide, 10 billion-ton meteorite are causing  problems for a small Iowa town 74 million years after it crashed onto  the Earth&#8217;s surface at 45,000 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2012302150039\">Des Moines Register<\/a> reports that the 1,600 residents of Manson, Iowa, are struggling to  locate a site for the town&#8217;s well due to the geological impact of the  meteorite. The crash created the underground <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igsb.uiowa.edu\/Browse\/manson99\/manson.htm\">Manson Crater<\/a>\u2014which has a diameter of 24 miles and reaches into four neighboring counties.\u00a0 The Manson Crater remains one of the largest outer space collision sites in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/ancient-meteor-standing-between-one-iowa-town-water-154639667.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/ancient-meteor-standing-between-one-iowa-town-water-154639667.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Meteorite Stands Between Town and Water Supply: The remains of a 1.5 mile-wide, 10 billion-ton meteorite are causing problems for a small Iowa town 74 million years after it crashed onto the Earth&#8217;s surface at 45,000 miles per hour. The Des Moines Register reports that the 1,600 residents of Manson, Iowa, are struggling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}