{"id":33205,"date":"2021-06-04T09:53:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33205"},"modified":"2021-06-04T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:53:52","slug":"word-of-the-day-693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/04\/word-of-the-day-693\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Agonic lines<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\">Another common explanation for the Bermuda Triangle rests on magnetism. The Earth\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"sc-8pb8t8-0 bmSGPg ydadvh-0 eBaWns\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/planet-earth\/earth-actually-has-four-north-poles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\">magnetic North Pole isn\u2019t the same as its geographic North Pole<\/span><\/a><span class=\"oahvym-0 kijmGk\">, which means that compasses usually don\u2019t point exactly north. Only along what\u2019s known as agonic lines, which line up magnetic and geographic north, are compasses truly accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One agonic line runs from Lake Superior down through the Gulf of Mexico near the Bermuda Triangle. One theory holds that mariners, usually accustomed to accounting for a discrepancy in their compass readings, may make mistakes when very near to the agonic line that lead them astray. Paired with the often shallow waters of the island-strewn Caribbean Sea, navigational errors could lead to boats running aground on hidden shoals.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/planet-earth\/the-bermuda-triangle-what-science-can-tell-us-about-the-mysterious-ocean\">The Bermuda Triangle: What Science Can Tell Us About The Mysterious Ocean Region<\/a><em>,&#8221; Nathaniel Scharping, <strong>Discover<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bermuda Triangle: Another example of a good myth that can&#8217;t be held down.<\/p>\n<p>Or drowned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agonic lines: Another common explanation for the Bermuda Triangle rests on magnetism. The Earth\u2019s\u00a0magnetic North Pole isn\u2019t the same as its geographic North Pole, which means that compasses usually don\u2019t point exactly north. Only along what\u2019s known as agonic lines, which line up magnetic and geographic north, are compasses truly \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/04\/word-of-the-day-693\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33206,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33205\/revisions\/33206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}