{"id":1482,"date":"2013-09-26T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2013-09-26T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T15:25:15","slug":"experts-baffled-by-quake-formed-island-except-you-know-theyre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/experts-baffled-by-quake-formed-island-except-you-know-theyre-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts baffled by quake-formed island except&#8230;you know&#8230;they&#8217;re not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what gets me about the &#8220;Baffling&#8221; meme in headline writing. Inevitably, the story reveals that, no, its a nifty, curious, uncommon thing, but rarely baffling.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the headline in question:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Today on the Lstrblg...<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/experts-baffled-by-quake-formed-island-except-you-know-theyre-not\/#Experts_baffled_by_quake-formed_island\" >Experts baffled by quake-formed island<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Experts_baffled_by_quake-formed_island\"><\/span><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/scitech\/science\/environment\/experts-baffled-by-quake-formed-island-1.1582797#.UkROD7z1vZc\">Experts baffled by quake-formed island<\/a> <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>As you can imagine, the story is about a new island formed off the coast of Pakistan by a recent, massive earthquake in the region. The article embeds this nifty video from the Telegraph:<br \/>\n<object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b3DEnVnQnx0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It takes about five paragraphs before the article contradicts the headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such islands are not entirely unusual to scientists who study the earth and its sometimes violent movements.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Bohnhoff, a professor of seismology at the German Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam said there are two ways such islands can be created.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;essentially, its prolly a mud volcano:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intechopen.com\/books\/updates-in-volcanology-new-advances-in-understanding-volcanic-systems\/an-overview-of-mud-volcanoes-associated-to-gas-hydrate-system\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intechopen.com\/source\/html\/38733\/media\/image8.jpeg\" width=\"708\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It RISES!<br \/>Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh&#8230;baffling news that isn&#8217;t quite so! Still&#8230;cool, new island!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,17,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregs-reference","category-pr-guy","category-rant-andor-rave","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-nU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}