{"id":237,"date":"2016-04-19T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-04-19T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T09:49:38","slug":"interesting-object-on-ascension-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Interesting object on Ascension Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Ascension Island mentioned on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-36076411\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News website<\/a> today. Having recently gained a great interest in Geology and Earth Sciences, I thought I would have a look using the satellite view in Google Maps. A lot of the imagery of the island is &#8216;redacted&#8217;, I assume because there is an air base there. But I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/place\/Ascension+Island\/@-7.9381082,-14.3758927,538m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x5b0f4126dd69e2d:0x40d606a7f1eda1e7?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">these objects<\/a>\u00a0and am really not sure what they are. What do you think? I am probably wrong, but it looks like there is a vehicle parked on each one. If so then it would suggest there are personnel at each site. There is another further north if you zoom out.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly looks like a place I would love to visit, but I imagine it is very hot there. I gather it is very difficult to get to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Ascension Island mentioned on the BBC News website today. Having recently gained a great interest in Geology and Earth Sciences, I thought I would have a look using the satellite view in Google Maps. A lot of the imagery of the island is &#8216;redacted&#8217;, I assume because there is an air base there&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}