{"id":54,"date":"2006-08-19T21:44:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/54-facts-about-gold"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:20:54","slug":"facts-about-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/54-facts-about-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gold\" alt=\"Gold\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/gold.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Gold may have been the first metal to be used by humans, probably in ceremony and for decoration.<\/p>\n<p>The Latin word for gold, aurum means &#8220;shining dawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An Egyptian king from 2600 bce described gold as &#8220;common as dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some historians believe that the exploration of the Americas was in part to confirm reports that native peoples had large amounts of gold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n75% of the gold ever extracted from the earth has been since 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates put all the gold ever extracted into a cube just 66 feet wide on each side.<\/p>\n<p>Alchemy, or the archaic &#8220;science&#8221; which sought to turn ordinary objects into gold, was the forerunner of modern chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the gold already mined is still in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Large deposits of gold were discovered during the 19th Century, which resulted in gold rushes to Klondike, California, Colorado, and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold may have been the first metal to be used by humans, probably in ceremony and for decoration. The Latin word for gold, aurum means &#8220;shining dawn.&#8221; An Egyptian king from 2600 bce described gold as &#8220;common as dust.&#8221; Some historians believe that the exploration of the Americas was in part to confirm reports that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}