{"id":40040,"date":"2022-11-29T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=40040"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:09:40","slug":"mindbender-407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2022\/11\/mindbender-407\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the &#8220;horse latitudes&#8221; and how did they get their name?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all readers who submitted correct answers to the last Mindbender question and to Steve Levine, Manchester, MA, who emailed: &#8220;The tightly spaced isobars between a high and low pressure systems indicate strong winds. In extreme situations like this, the area can be known as a &#8220;squash zone&#8221; that creates very strong storm-force winds. The Perfect Storm was just such a squash zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the &#8220;horse latitudes&#8221; and how did they get their name? &nbsp; Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing. &nbsp; Congratulations to all readers who submitted correct answers to the last Mindbender question and to Steve Levine, Manchester, MA, who emailed: &#8220;The tightly spaced isobars between a high and low pressure systems indicate strong winds. In extreme situations like this, the area can be known as a &#8220;squash zone&#8221; that creates very strong storm-force winds. The Perfect Storm was just such a squash zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32719,"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\/40040"}],"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=40040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40041,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40040\/revisions\/40041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}