{"id":46204,"date":"2026-10-07T20:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=46204"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:05:30","slug":"mindbender-585","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/10\/mindbender-585\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Mercator Projection map or chart, why does Greenland look so much larger than it actually is?<\/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 everyome who sent in answers to last week&#8217;s question on a ring around the moon. The winner this week is Sarah Roberts, Edgartown, Narthga&#8217;s Vineyard, Massachusetts. who emailed: &#8220;A ring around a moon means high level moisture or ice crystals that indicate a weather change and likely rain or snow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Mercator Projection map or chart, why does Greenland look so much larger than it actually is? &nbsp; Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. &nbsp; Many thanks to everyome who sent in answers to last week&#8217;s question on a ring around the moon. The winner this week is Sarah Roberts, Edgartown, Narthga&#8217;s Vineyard, Massachusetts. who emailed: &#8220;A ring around a moon means high level moisture or ice crystals that indicate a weather change and likely rain or snow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28857,"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\/46204"}],"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=46204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46205,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204\/revisions\/46205"}],"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=46204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}