{"id":198934,"date":"2007-09-26T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/9104-98-smoots-to-work-as-the-crow-flies\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T04:12:00","slug":"9104-98-smoots-to-work-as-the-crow-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/9104-98-smoots-to-work-as-the-crow-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"9104.98 Smoots to Work as the Crow Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, those wacky folks at Google Maps have added a new feature, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/09\/25\/mesopotamian_nil_cubit\/\">measure straight line distances by almost any unit you can imagine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just go to &#8220;My Maps&#8221;, then &#8220;Distance Measurement Tool&#8221; followed by &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling geeky&#8221; and select from the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fond of Smoots&#8230;I&#8217;ve been on the bridge, and seen the original, and the new smoots after the reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, those wacky folks at Google Maps have added a new feature, you can measure straight line distances by almost any unit you can imagine. Just go to &#8220;My Maps&#8221;, then &#8220;Distance Measurement Tool&#8221; followed by &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling geeky&#8221; and select from the drop-down menu. I&#8217;m fond of Smoots&#8230;I&#8217;ve been on the bridge, and seen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}