{"id":45476,"date":"2026-03-23T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=45476"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:32:30","slug":"mindbender-560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/03\/mindbender-560\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the old time phrase &#8220;enough room to swing a cat&#8221; come from?<\/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 on the intertropical convergence zones. The winner this week is Ed Richter, sv Wanderer, who emailed, &#8220;The intertropical convergence zone is a band of distrubed air that circles the globe at the equator and separates the notherest trade winds in the north fromo the southeast trad winds in the south.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the old time phrase &#8220;enough room to swing a cat&#8221; come from? &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 on the intertropical convergence zones. The winner this week is Ed Richter, sv Wanderer, who emailed, &#8220;The intertropical convergence zone is a band of distrubed air that circles the globe at the equator and separates the notherest trade winds in the north fromo the southeast trad winds in the south.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23226,"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\/45476"}],"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=45476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45510,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45476\/revisions\/45510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}