{"id":5520,"date":"2002-03-21T20:19:42","date_gmt":"2002-03-22T01:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2011-04-08T20:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:21:11","slug":"chinese-beat-columbus-and-magellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2002\/03\/21\/chinese-beat-columbus-and-magellan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese beat Columbus and Magellan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewatch\/menzies_china_020321.html\">Chinese beat Columbus and Magellan<\/a>. Zhang He sailed around the world about 1421 according to historian Menzies. I will have to pick up his book when it is published.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Columbus Day. I think the Norse beat him across the Atlantic centuries earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the\u00c2\u00a0Chinese beat Columbus and Magellan. Zhang He sailed around the world about 1421 according to historian Menzies. I will have to pick up his book when it is published. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Columbus Day. I think the Norse beat him across the Atlantic centuries earlier. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256,1213,148,1204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-from-pitas","category-history","category-holiday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1r2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}