{"id":641,"date":"2007-09-04T07:31:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T06:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=641"},"modified":"2007-09-04T07:31:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T06:31:01","slug":"astride-the-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Astride the meridian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I revisited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmm.ac.uk\/\">National Maritime Museum<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmm.ac.uk\/server\/show\/conWebDoc.13496\">Royal Greenwich Observatory<\/a> in Greenwich with a very good friend who&#8217;s lived in London for decades and never been there. One of the famous features of the place is the location of 0 degrees longitude and one can stand astride a line marking this special geographical spot.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/RGO.jpg\"  border=3><br \/><font size=\"-2\">Standing astride the world&#8217;s prime meridian<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I revisited the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich with a very good friend who&#8217;s lived in London for decades and never been there. One of the famous features of the place is the location of 0 degrees longitude and one can stand astride a line marking this special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}