{"id":45158,"date":"2025-12-18T13:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=45158"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:08:17","slug":"mindbender-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2025\/12\/mindbender-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What early scientist established the system of latitude and longitude for the Earth we know today?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Send your answers to <a href=\"george@bwsailing.com\">george@bwsailing.com.<\/a> A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week&#8217;s question. The winner this week is regular Mindbender contributor Bob Pickett who emailed: &#8220;<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The\u00a0<span class=\"markhu0s9yqzd\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">northern<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markyx5ddtw5p\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">lights<\/span>\u00a0(Aurora Borealis)\u00a0<\/span>are caused by collisions between fast moving particles from the sun and gases in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere, primarily oxygen and nitrogen. These charged particles are released during solar storms and travel through space, eventually interacting with the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What early scientist established the system of latitude and longitude for the Earth we know today? &nbsp; Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week&#8217;s question. The winner this week is regular Mindbender contributor Bob Pickett who emailed: &#8220;The\u00a0northern\u00a0lights\u00a0(Aurora Borealis)\u00a0are caused by collisions between fast moving particles from the sun and gases in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere, primarily oxygen and nitrogen. These charged particles are released during solar storms and travel through space, eventually interacting with the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20659,"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\/45158"}],"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=45158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45161,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45158\/revisions\/45161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}