{"id":29608,"date":"2017-12-20T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29608"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:50:42","slug":"mindbender-170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/12\/mindbender-170\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an anchor line, what is the &#8220;bitter end?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Send your answer to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com?subject=Mindbender\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto:cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com?subject=Mindbender\">cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com<\/a>. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a\u00a0<em>Blue Water Sailing<\/em>\u00a0hat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sub>Congratulations to James Skok\u00a0 of Sebastian, FL,\u00a0 who gave the correct answer too last week&#8217;s questions. &#8220;The answer\u00a0 is the SOUTHERN CROSS, but the actual star that is closest (within 1 degree ) of the South Pole is Sigma Octans. Its light , however, is very faint compared to others.\u00a0<\/sub><sub>A better way to find the pole uses the constellation Crux (proper name of the Southern Cross) and the two brightest stars in Centaurus, Rigil Kent and Hadar.\u00a0 These stars are sometimes called the \u201cSouthern Pointers\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><sub>\u00a0<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><sub>\u00a0<\/sub><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an anchor line, what is the &#8220;bitter end?&#8221; &nbsp; Send your answer to\u00a0cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a\u00a0Blue Water Sailing\u00a0hat. &nbsp; Congratulations to James Skok\u00a0 of Sebastian, FL,\u00a0 who gave the correct answer too last week&#8217;s questions. &#8220;The answer\u00a0 is the SOUTHERN CROSS, but the actual star that is closest (within 1 degree ) of the South Pole is Sigma Octans. Its light , however, is very faint compared to others.\u00a0A better way to find the pole uses the constellation Crux (proper name of the Southern Cross) and the two brightest stars in Centaurus, Rigil Kent and Hadar.\u00a0 These stars are sometimes called the \u201cSouthern Pointers\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29609,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions\/29609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}