{"id":363,"date":"2011-09-02T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/09\/02\/whats_this\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:35:33","slug":"whats_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/09\/02\/whats_this\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been looking at a bit of central China on Google Maps. This bit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?t=k&amp;key=ABQIAAAAW7GINh5FDqqXHUMgsWkJbxRaWocVIEXrBAg1pfraw-HHc-nOiRRg0it-pZlkqW0FLqUrfzNSZjGZBg&amp;mapclient=jsapi&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=35.001246,104.999385&amp;spn=0.026084,0.055747&amp;z=15&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;source=embed\">View Larger Map<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m curious what this place looks like. I&#8217;m interpreting it as terraces on the sides of a river valley, but that&#8217;s an educated guess. Does anyone know better? Or can you suggest a more interesting explanation?  And what&#8217;s the wifi reception like if you&#8217;re sat there with your laptop?<br \/>\nIf we&#8217;re really lucky someone from there might turn up and tell us. Or they&#8217;ll just try to sell us some replica shoes, handbags and a new era cap (presumably celebrating the new era when England aren&#8217;t crap at cricket, so it&#8217;ll probably collapse in the middle).<br \/>\n(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tomwebb\/\">Tom<\/a> for the lead)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been looking at a bit of central China on Google Maps. This bit: View Larger Map I&#8217;m curious what this place looks like. I&#8217;m interpreting it as terraces on the sides of a river valley, but that&#8217;s an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/09\/02\/whats_this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-fun","category-science-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}