{"id":3315,"date":"2008-08-18T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2008-08-18T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:23:01","slug":"ancient_midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2008\/08\/15\/travel\/15mile-600.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/15\/travel\/escapes\/15mile.html\">Keith Mulvihill<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>THE earthworks left behind by the long vanished civilizations of the Midwest are harder to spot than the pueblos and kivas of Arizona and New Mexico. For a long time many of them were hidden in plain sight or dismissed as little more than heaps of soil. But the more today&#8217;s archaeologists learn about the Midwestern mounds, the more intriguing is the picture that emerges from 1,000 or more years ago: a city with thousands of people just a few miles from present-day St. Louis, a 1,348-foot earthen serpent that points to the summer solstice, artifacts made of materials that could only have arrived over lengthy trade routes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like a fascinating drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2008\/08\/15\/travel\/15mile-600.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/15\/travel\/escapes\/15mile.html\">Keith Mulvihill<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>THE earthworks left behind by the long vanished civilizations of the Midwest are harder to spot than the pueblos and kivas of Arizona and New Mexico. For a long time many of them were hidden in plain sight or dismissed as little more than heaps of soil. But the more today&#8217;s archaeologists learn about the Midwestern mounds, the more intriguing is the picture that emerges from 1,000 or more years ago: a city with thousands of people just a few miles from present-day St. Louis, a 1,348-foot earthen serpent that points to the summer solstice, artifacts made of materials that could only have arrived over lengthy trade routes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like a fascinating drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}