{"id":9947,"date":"2010-03-04T23:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/the-highest-spot-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:52:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:52:44","slug":"the-highest-spot-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/the-highest-spot-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Highest&#8221; Spot on Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=9428163'>The &#8220;Highest&#8221; Spot on Earth?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Mount Chimborazo, in the Andes, is a 20,000-plus-foot peak sitting on  top of a bulge on the Earth.  Mount Everest is a 29,000-plus-foot peak  sitting lower down on that same bulge. Because Chimborazo is a bump on a  bigger part of the bulge, it is higher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Highest&#8221; Spot on Earth? Mount Chimborazo, in the Andes, is a 20,000-plus-foot peak sitting on top of a bulge on the Earth. Mount Everest is a 29,000-plus-foot peak sitting lower down on that same bulge. Because Chimborazo is a bump on a bigger part of the bulge, it is higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}