{"id":29178,"date":"2015-12-17T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29178"},"modified":"2017-03-28T22:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T21:07:40","slug":"murray-john-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/murray-john-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Murray.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29180\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/John-Murray.png\" alt=\"John Murray\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>John<\/strong><strong> M<\/strong><strong>urray <\/strong><strong>(1841-1914) <\/strong>was born in Canada of Scottish parents and renowned as an oceanographer and marine biologist, sometimes referred to as &#8216;the father of modern oceanography&#8217;, a term he also coined. He is also credited with being the first to recognise the existence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mid-atlantic-ridge\/\">Mid-Atlantic Ridge<\/a> and of marine or oceanic trenches.<\/p>\n<p>In 1933 it was reported<sup>(a)<\/sup> that an expedition named after Murray had discovered &#8216;traces&#8217; of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lemuria\/\">Lemuria<\/a> in the Indian Ocean. However, this was the Lemuria hypothesised by Sclater rather than the total fantasy promoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/blavatsky-madame-helena-petrovna\/\">Blavatsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/71147253?searchTerm=Plato%20Atlantis&amp;searchLimits=sortby=dateDesc\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/71147253?searchTerm=Plato Atlantis&amp;searchLimits=sortby=dateDesc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Murray (1841-1914) was born in Canada of Scottish parents and renowned as an oceanographer and marine biologist, sometimes referred to as &#8216;the father of modern oceanography&#8217;, a term he also coined. He is also credited with being the first to recognise the existence of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and of marine or oceanic trenches. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,81,4370,388,18,4371],"class_list":["post-29178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blavatsky","tag-indian-ocean","tag-john-murray","tag-lemuria","tag-mid-atlantic-ridge","tag-oceanography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}