{"id":61882,"date":"2026-05-08T18:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/08\/east-africa-might-break-off-from-the-continent-sooner-than-scientists-thought-and-a-new-ocean-may-fill-the-gap-smithsonian-magazine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:48:52","slug":"east-africa-might-break-off-from-the-continent-sooner-than-scientists-thought-and-a-new-ocean-may-fill-the-gap-smithsonian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/08\/east-africa-might-break-off-from-the-continent-sooner-than-scientists-thought-and-a-new-ocean-may-fill-the-gap-smithsonian-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa Might Break Off From the Continent Sooner Than Scientists Thought\u2014and a New Ocean May Fill the Gap &#8211; Smithsonian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi9gFBVV95cUxOT29hNHBLTlBTTE9jYXNsNkd4YU9zbEtRSUJidDdGcDNQN3NoQlZNUkEyQWd4amxicVhIZDRDMk1oOFM0eDY3U0RUU2NEX2FOaWRrODZLZDRiSERLMDBlWXE1N2dlVWplVlBNaFhqVTg2Y0RyT0tJMWtyaXZLbWN6bDk2NmRwVDBtckxfdTh5bjlLWjI0SVUxZkRsNTBoQU5JSGFKSm1vM2VxM0ZMVzZFajVtVUhRVVFkLUFBaHlVTGhyZXZjLWE3eUg5bVlScHVoajcyNS1uMm41SV9mY1VjcGFEWG1tTWprOVpWa014Rm9nWGJWaWc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">East Africa Might Break Off From the Continent Sooner Than Scientists Thought\u2014and a New Ocean May Fill the Gap<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Africa Might Break Off From the Continent Sooner Than Scientists Thought\u2014and a New Ocean May Fill the Gap&nbsp;&nbsp;Smithsonian Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}