{"id":8129,"date":"2016-08-26T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2016-08-26T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:47:04","slug":"oldest-tree-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/oldest-tree-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest tree in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently identified the oldest tree in Europe as a Bosnian pine growing in Greece which has been measured to be at least 1,075 years old based on tree rings. \u00a0While old trees are more common in the US, they are rare in Europe because it has been populated so long, and exposure to humans makes them more likely to be chopped down or otherwise harmed. \u00a0You can read more about it at the <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2016\/0820\/This-tree-in-Greece-is-Europe-s-oldest-known-living-tree\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/oldest-tree-in-europe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8130\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/oldest-tree-in-europe-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"oldest tree in europe\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/oldest-tree-in-europe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/oldest-tree-in-europe-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/oldest-tree-in-europe.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently identified the oldest tree in Europe as a Bosnian pine growing in Greece which has been measured to be at least 1,075 years old based on tree rings. \u00a0While old trees are more common in the US, they are rare in Europe because it has been populated so long, and exposure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8129","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\/8129","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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}