{"id":944,"date":"2012-12-22T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:05:39","slug":"faux-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/faux-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux End of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Orion
Orion over El Castillo 2012 December 21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A beautiful photograph from the website: http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap121221.html <\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome to the December solstice<\/a>, a day the world does not end …<\/a> even according to the Mayan Calendar (a faux end of the world to the gullible). To celebrate, consider this dramatic picture<\/a> of Orion rising over El Castillo<\/a>, the central pyramid at Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1, one of the great Mayan centers on the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula. Also known as the Temple of Kukulkan it stands 30 meters tall and 55 meters wide at the base. Built up as a series of square terraces by the pre-Columbian civilization between the 9th and 12th century, the structure can be used as a calendar and is noted for astronomical alignments<\/a>. In fact, the Mayans were accomplished astronomers and mathematicians, accurately using the cyclic motions of the stars, Sun, Moon, and planets to measure time and construct calendars<\/a>. Peering through clouds in this night sky scape, stars in the modern constellation Orion the Hunter represented a turtle in the Mayan sky. Tak s\u00e1amal.<\/a><\/p>\n

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December solstice, a day the world does not end … even according to the Mayan Calendar (a faux end of the world to the gullible). To celebrate, consider this dramatic picture of Orion rising over El Castillo, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[23,112,66,70,142],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-noteworthy","tag-anecdotes","tag-education","tag-history-2","tag-science","tag-surveying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-fe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}