{"id":448814,"date":"2010-03-18T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/place\/madison-boulder"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:45:00","slug":"madison-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/448814","title":{"rendered":"Madison Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image of Madison Boulder located in Madison, New Hampshire, US | Madison Boulder Natural Area in Madison, New Hampshire, USA\" title=\"Madison Boulder Natural Area in Madison, New Hampshire, USA\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/images\/place\/madison-boulder.7995.main.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/madison-boulder\">Madison Boulder<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>A Very Big Rock in New Hampshire<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Madison Boulder is thought to be the largest glacial erratic &#8211; an erratic being a boulder of a certain type of rock that was transported by glacial ice and deposited on bedrock of different type of rock &#8211; in North America.  <br \/>\nAt 23 feet high, 37 feet front-to-back, and 85 feet left-to-right Madison Boulder is estimated to weigh almost 12 million pounds, roughly the weight of 36 blue whales. It was once part of a ledge of Conway Granite and was transported about two miles south to its current location where it now sits on a deposit of Concord Granite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/madison-boulder\">Read more about Madison Boulder on Atlas Obscura&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Category: <br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\/new-hampshire\/madison\">Madison<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\/new-hampshire\">New Hampshire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\">US<\/a><br \/>Edited by: <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/user\/Dylan\">Dylan<\/a><br \/><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison Boulder A Very Big Rock in New Hampshire Madison Boulder is thought to be the largest glacial erratic &#8211; an erratic being a boulder of a certain type of rock that was transported by glacial ice and deposited on bedrock of different type of rock &#8211; in North America. At 23 feet high, 37 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}