{"id":236,"date":"2008-09-06T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/09\/blame-it-on-the-weather.html"},"modified":"2008-09-06T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T23:38:00","slug":"blame-it-on-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/09\/blame-it-on-weather-236.html","title":{"rendered":"Blame it on the weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The phrase &#8220;blame it on the weather&#8221; takes new meaning in light of research suggesting that regional climate may very well have been responsible for the evolution of lifestyle, culture and even religion in the Middle East.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So says a <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/06\/25\/fertile-crescent-dna.html\">Discovery.com news item<\/a> that states that the Middle East, between 11,000 and 10,300 years ago, experienced a period of climate change, becoming colder and more arid. And consequently this created a cultural split between those who went on to live in the new desert, and those who lived in more fertile regions. These cultural differences can be traced back genetically.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that rather than just &#8220;blame it on the weather&#8221;, we can theorise that a pole shift was the cause of the major climate change, and that such a cataclysm would have been an additional factor in the emergence of different cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;blame it on the weather&#8221; takes new meaning in light of research suggesting that regional climate may very well have been responsible for the evolution of lifestyle, culture and even religion in the Middle East.<br \/>\nSo says a Discovery.com news item that states that the Middle East, between 11,000 and 10,300 years ago, experienced a period of climate change, becoming colder and more arid. And consequently this created a cultural split between those who went on to live in the new desert, and those who lived in more fertile regions. These cultural differences can be traced back genetically.<br \/>\nCould it be that rather than just &#8220;blame it on the weather&#8221;, we can theorise that a pole shift was the cause of the major climate change, and that such a cataclysm would have been an additional factor in the emergence of different cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pole-shift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->