{"id":8939,"count":3,"description":"Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.\nGeologists use the term \"marble\" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.\nMarble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.\nThe word \"marble\" derives from the Greek \"\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\" (m\u00e1rmaron), from \"\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2\" (m\u00e1rmaros), \"crystalline rock\", \"shining stone\", perhaps from the verb \"\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03bc\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03c9\" (marma\u00edr\u014d), \"to flash, sparkle, gleam\". This stem is also the basis for the English word marmoreal, meaning \"marble-like.\"\nWhilst the English term resembles the French marbre, most other European languages (e.g. Spanish m\u00e1rmol, Italian marmo, Portuguese m\u00e1rmore, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish marmor, Dutch marmer, Polish marmur, Turkish mermer, Czech mramor and Russian \u043c\u0440\u00e1\u043c\u043e\u0440 ) follow the original Greek.\nMarble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/marble\/","name":"Marble","slug":"marble","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}