{"id":107,"date":"2019-10-14T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-11-15T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:10:26","slug":"what-is-spinning-the-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/what-is-spinning-the-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Spinning The Compass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"588.0980000000003\">\u201cTrue enough, this compass does not point north.\u201d<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"288.0479999999999\">\u201c&#8230; where does it point?\u201d<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"636.1060000000004\">\u201cIt points to the thing you most want in this world.\u201d<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"504.0840000000002\">&#8211; Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I started this site a few years ago, when i had a week off that I don&#8217;t normally have, during the fall semester. The intent was to &nbsp;point the compass in one direction and go. No plan, just go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the week that I started this blog, I left my home in Hamilton, Ontario on the Monday and had to be in Rochester, New York by 4 pm on Friday for my conference. It was getting chilly, so I wanted to keep warm, so the idea was to head south. Exactly where and when I was going to be, I had no specific plan. So began, the idea of spinning the compass.<\/p>\n<p>While I use this site for travel in general, I am a person who tends to wait to the last minute, or dislikes planning every move, in case something comes up or fails. I like keeping my options open, and this website reflects that. Please enjoy responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrue enough, this compass does not point north.\u201d \u201c&#8230; where does it point?\u201d \u201cIt points to the thing you most want in this world.\u201d &#8211; Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann I started this site a few years ago, when i had a week off that I don&#8217;t normally have, during the fall semester. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-trip","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinningthecompass.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}