{"id":45802,"date":"2026-06-17T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=45802"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:38:23","slug":"mindbender-571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/06\/mindbender-571\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a &#8220;wind shaddow&#8221; ?<\/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 Gordon Couture, Lake St. Clair, Michigan,. who emailed: &#8220;The <span class=\"markgcppgxztz\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">prime<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markarius29re\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">meridian<\/span> is an imaginary line that runs north-south between earth\u2019s geographic poles.\u00a0 It is the location of 0\u00b0 longitude that separates the eastern and western hemispheres (and E-W longitude coordinates).\u00a0 The line passes through Greenwich, England as well as several other countries and a lot of ocean.\u00a0 It is geographically opposite the international date line, which is 180\u00b0 longitude, the maximum E-W coordinate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a &#8220;wind shaddow&#8221; ? &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 Gordon Couture, Lake St. Clair, Michigan,. who emailed: &#8220;The prime\u00a0meridian is an imaginary line that runs north-south between earth\u2019s geographic poles.\u00a0 It is the location of 0\u00b0 longitude that separates the eastern and western hemispheres (and E-W longitude coordinates).\u00a0 The line passes through Greenwich, England as well as several other countries and a lot of ocean.\u00a0 It is geographically opposite the international date line, which is 180\u00b0 longitude, the maximum E-W coordinate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45802"}],"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=45802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45805,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45802\/revisions\/45805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}