{"id":6053,"date":"2011-06-25T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2011-06-25T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T11:00:27","slug":"where-do-four-states-or-four-countries-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6053","title":{"rendered":"Where do four states or four countries meet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read about a location in the United States called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navajonationparks.org\/htm\/fourcorners.htm\">Four Corners Monument<\/a>. This is the only place in the United States where four states intersect at one point:  Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. It&#8217;s very remote and I&#8217;m not planning to visit it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another spot on the globe where the boundaries of four countries meet and I have been there. It&#8217;s\u00a0 in the middle of water and unmarked. It is actually at the confluence of the Zambezi River and the Chobe River  and, at a point in the middle of the river, the borders of Zambia,  Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia all meet.<\/p>\n<p>I used this latter location as the starting point for one of my 27 short stories called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Story12.html\">&#8220;An African Adventure&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read about a location in the United States called Four Corners Monument. This is the only place in the United States where four states intersect at one point: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. It&#8217;s very remote and I&#8217;m not planning to visit it. There&#8217;s another spot on the globe where the boundaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}