{"id":73908,"date":"2023-08-28T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-08-28\/por-que-el-meridiano-0-es-el-que-pasa-por-greenwich.html"},"modified":"2023-08-28T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:50:16","slug":"por-que-el-meridiano-0-es-el-que-pasa-por-greenwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/por-que-el-meridiano-0-es-el-que-pasa-por-greenwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the 0 meridian passes through Greenwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durante muchos siglos el problema de determinar la posici\u00f3n de un buque en alta mar result\u00f3 muy complicado, aunque latitud y longitud plantean dos dificultades muy distintas. La latitud se mide con respecto a una referencia muy clara: <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/las-cientificas-responden\/2022-09-30\/como-se-ve-el-cielo-nocturno-desde-el-ecuador.html\" >el ecuador<\/a>; en cambio, para la longitud no existe un punto de partida concreto, ya que todos los meridianos son iguales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-08-28\/por-que-el-meridiano-0-es-el-que-pasa-por-greenwich.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times, the zero meridian was usually established coinciding with the last known land, beyond which there was only unexplored ocean.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73909,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73908\/revisions\/73909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}