{"id":763,"date":"2004-03-12T22:58:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T03:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/newflash_great_wall_myth_buste\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T22:58:31","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T03:58:31","slug":"newflash_great_wall_myth_buste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/newflash_great_wall_myth_buste\/","title":{"rendered":"Newflash: Great Wall Myth Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit slow in picking up on this one.  I always thought it was a little strange when I heard people claim you could see the Great Wall from space&#8211;it being just a <i>wall<\/i>.<br \/>\nDuh.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t until now that I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/03\/12\/china.great.wall.myth.ap\/index.html\">that your can&#8217;t see it from space<\/a>.  Anyway, the Chinese Ministry of Education has ordered the myth be removed from that country&#8217;s textbooks.  So I&#8217;m now on par with the Chinese school kiddies.<br \/>\nOnward and upward.<br \/>\nUPDATE: The controversy continues.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapboxjams.com\/china\/archive\/000193.html\">Tennessee Ruck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg\/news\/story\/0,4386,240173,00.html\">this story<\/a> quotes American astronaut Gene Cernan: &#8220;At Earth orbit of 160km to 320km high, the Great Wall of China is indeed visible to the naked eye.&#8221;<br \/>\nMaybe I need to go up there to settle this one once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/newflash_great_wall_myth_buste\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Newflash: Great Wall Myth Busted\"><p>I&#8217;m a bit slow in picking up on this one. I always thought it was a little strange when I heard people claim you could see the Great Wall from space&#8211;it being just a wall. Duh. It wasn&#8217;t until now that I read that your can&#8217;t see it from space. Anyway, the Chinese Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}