{"id":912,"date":"2008-05-06T07:39:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=912"},"modified":"2008-05-06T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T06:39:41","slug":"how-many-continents-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"How many continents are there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really depends on the categorisation one uses<br \/>\nSeven areas are commonly regarded as continents. They are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. On this basis, I&#8217;ve visited five &#8211; not having been to Antarctica or Australia.<br \/>\nAs you&#8217;ll see from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continent#Number_of_continents\">this analysis<\/a>, however, there are at least six different ways of categorising continents with numbers ranging from four to seven.<br \/>\nIn all the categorisations, one continent is Australia, but this continent is not always called Australia, sometimes being known as Australasia or Oceania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really depends on the categorisation one uses Seven areas are commonly regarded as continents. They are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. On this basis, I&#8217;ve visited five &#8211; not having been to Antarctica or Australia. As you&#8217;ll see from this analysis, however, there [&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-912","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\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}