{"id":5071,"date":"2018-03-29T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2018-03-29T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T08:35:12","slug":"the-real-shape-of-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/the-real-shape-of-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Shape of the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5072\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realshapeOfGlobe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realshapeOfGlobe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Real Shape Of The Globe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5072\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Real Shape Of The Globe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Real Shape of The Globe<br \/>\nBy Chongchen Saelee<\/p>\n<p>Most depictions of the globe is an oversimplification, a mapping projection made by cartographers so it is easier to read and navigate.<\/p>\n<p>But the actual physical earth is not a perfect sphere. If anything was a perfect sphere, it would be the Earth&#8217;s atmoshphere. Everything else is irregular. So to map the physical land to a perfect sphere is inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>So if you were to fly a literal straight path from point-to-point, there would be no curve like how some animations depict it. You would actually travel faster and shorter distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Shape of The Globe By Chongchen Saelee Most depictions of the globe is an oversimplification, a mapping projection made by cartographers so it is easier to read and navigate. But the actual physical earth is not a perfect sphere. If anything was a perfect sphere, it would be the Earth&#8217;s atmoshphere. Everything else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[46,811,1073,1104,2095,2310,2342,2414],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-entertainment","category-tech","tag-3d","tag-earth","tag-geometry","tag-globe","tag-real","tag-shape","tag-size","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}