{"id":58931,"date":"2026-08-18T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/giants-causeway-10000-rock-damaging-coins-removed-from-landmark\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:54:50","slug":"giants-causeway-10000-rock-damaging-coins-removed-from-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/giants-causeway-10000-rock-damaging-coins-removed-from-landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant&#8217;s Causeway: 10,000 rock damaging coins removed from landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Giant&#8217;s Causeway is located in Country Antrim, and was formed by intense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/33947859\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">volcanic activity<\/a> which forced molten rock up through cracks in the earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This lava flowed and then cooled, contracted and cracked, creating around eight-sided basalt columns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These are also part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/articles\/zjhtmfr\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">famous legend<\/a> about a giant called Finn McCool (Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s said that he built the causeway as a bridge to Scotland, in order to fight another giant who was taunting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to a different legend, in another fight with a giant, Finn threw some earth which missed, landed in the sea, and became what we now know to be the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g3qyypdmyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giant&#8217;s Causeway is located in Country Antrim, and was formed by intense volcanic activity which forced molten rock up through cracks in the earth. This lava flowed and then cooled, contracted and cracked, creating around eight-sided basalt columns. These are also part of a famous legend about a giant called Finn McCool (Fionn mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7397,4094,10574,8127,656,4334,237],"class_list":["post-58931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-causeway","tag-coins","tag-damaging","tag-giants","tag-landmark","tag-removed","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58933,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931\/revisions\/58933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}