{"id":24916,"date":"2019-05-25T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24916"},"modified":"2019-05-25T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:06:29","slug":"this-reminds-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/05\/25\/this-reminds-me\/","title":{"rendered":"This Reminds Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2019\/05\/20\/16-35506.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From<\/a> the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The en banc court stayed proceedings and certified the following question to the Montana Supreme Court:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Whether, under Montana law, dinosaur fossils constitute \u201cminerals\u201d for the purpose of a mineral reservation. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so I&#8217;m a dinosaur geek, retired, so this is interesting all on its own. After all, a fossil is the result of bone, and sometimes flesh, being transformed into stone. Yet, the purpose of minerals within Western Civ is tangibly different from that of fossils, although I suppose one could make the case that fossils have more than a paleontological or collectors&#8217; value.<\/p>\n<p>But this also reminds me of a story that my Arts Editor&#8217;s Uncle Tim was telling us at a family get-together once, and it boils down to this, homeowners: you may think when you buy your house, you own the land &#8211; but you may not own the minerals beneath it! Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mineralhub.com\/2010\/04\/how-can-i-locate-who-owns-the-mineral-rights-under-my-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explanatory page<\/a> on the matter, which sort of tempts me to pursue it, just to see who could force me off my land just to exploit the minerals beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: The en banc court stayed proceedings and certified the following question to the Montana Supreme Court: Whether, under Montana law, dinosaur fossils constitute \u201cminerals\u201d for the purpose of a mineral reservation. OK, so I&#8217;m a dinosaur geek, retired, so this is interesting \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/05\/25\/this-reminds-me\/\"> 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-24916","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\/24916","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=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24917,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/24917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}