{"id":7523,"date":"2016-06-28T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2016-06-28T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:05:30","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-a-600-year-old-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/saying-goodbye-to-a-600-year-old-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying goodbye to a 600-year-old oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> had an article this week about the &#8220;Holy Oak&#8221; located in Basking Ridge, NJ, which is estimated to be over 600 years old. \u00a0It is the oldest white oak in the US and possibly the world. \u00a0The tree is slowly dying, and the residents are mourning the loss of a tree with so much history. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/a-town-tries-to-care-for-and-let-go-of-its-oldest-resident--a-600-year-old-oak\/2016\/06\/27\/a7fc4dcc-3a1a-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&amp;wpmm=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Basking_Ridge_Oak_Tree_-_Basking_Ridge_NJ_-_November_2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7524\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Basking_Ridge_Oak_Tree_-_Basking_Ridge_NJ_-_November_2012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Msact, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Basking_Ridge_Oak_Tree_-_Basking_Ridge_NJ_-_November_2012-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Basking_Ridge_Oak_Tree_-_Basking_Ridge_NJ_-_November_2012-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Basking_Ridge_Oak_Tree_-_Basking_Ridge_NJ_-_November_2012.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Msact, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post had an article this week about the &#8220;Holy Oak&#8221; located in Basking Ridge, NJ, which is estimated to be over 600 years old. \u00a0It is the oldest white oak in the US and possibly the world. \u00a0The tree is slowly dying, and the residents are mourning the loss of a tree with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}