Iceland is a growing country, at a pace much slower than glacial.\u00a0 When I walked in the crack between the North American and Eurasian plates I was wondering what I was walking on because it was neither America nor Europe.\u00a0 What if I fell into the crack?\u00a0 They might find my bones 65 million years from now.\u00a0 By that time Iceland could be the new supercontinent surrounded by the Global Ocean.\u00a0 All the other continents might have been subducted underneath Icelandia or have collided with it and left their rubble in the form of huge mountain ranges. The people of Icelandia would all speak English with an Icelandic accent but they would not remember why.\u00a0 There would only be two world religions, one that believed in trolls and one that believed in elves.\u00a0 Iceland could become enormously wealthy with an ultra-slow financial pyramid scheme.\u00a0 After all other continents had subducted under it, this time they would not have to pay it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iceland is a growing country, at a pace much slower than glacial.\u00a0 When I walked in the crack between the North American and Eurasian plates I was wondering what I was walking on because it was neither America nor Europe.\u00a0 What if I fell into the crack?\u00a0 They might find my bones 65 million years … Continue reading “July 10: What if …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}