{"id":42156,"date":"2024-03-25T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=42156"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:25:26","slug":"mindbender-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2024\/03\/mindbender-473\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is St. Elmo&#8217;s Fire and what causes it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Cindy Stein, Ft. Lauderdale, FL who emailed: &#8220;One knot equals one nautical mile per hour, or roughly 1.15 statute mph. The term knot dates from the 17th century, when sailors measured the speed of their ship using a device called a \u201ccommon log.\u201d The common log was a rope with knots at regular intervals, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is St. Elmo&#8217;s Fire and what causes it? &nbsp; Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine. &nbsp; Congratulations to Cindy Stein, Ft. Lauderdale, FL who emailed: &#8220;One knot equals one nautical mile per hour, or roughly 1.15 statute mph. The term knot dates from the 17th century, when sailors measured the speed of their ship using a device called a \u201ccommon log.\u201d The common log was a rope with knots at regular intervals, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41363,"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\/42156"}],"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=42156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42157,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42156\/revisions\/42157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}