{"id":15798,"date":"2018-05-20T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T22:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15798"},"modified":"2018-05-20T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T22:13:33","slug":"the-height-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/05\/20\/the-height-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Height Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/301-1805\/world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (May\/June 2018):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to some ancient sources, the Greco-Roman priests of Hierapolis would lead sacrificial animals toward the city\u2019s purported gate to the underworld, where the beasts would suddenly collapse and die. A recent study has finally revealed the truth behind this 2,000-year-old mystery. \u201cPluto\u2019s Gate\u201d is actually built atop a fault that emits carbon dioxide. Because it is heavier than air, the gas collects in higher concentrations closer to the ground. The priests were tall enough to avoid toxic levels of the gas, but the animals were not so fortunate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Archaeology (May\/June 2018): According to some ancient sources, the Greco-Roman priests of Hierapolis would lead sacrificial animals toward the city\u2019s purported gate to the underworld, where the beasts would suddenly collapse and die. A recent study has finally revealed the truth behind this 2,000-year-old mystery. \u201cPluto\u2019s Gate\u201d is actually \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/05\/20\/the-height-advantage\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15799,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions\/15799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}