{"id":1255,"date":"2011-01-18T03:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T02:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2011-01-17T03:58:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T02:58:51","slug":"at-the-equator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1255","title":{"rendered":"At the equator."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macapa, Brazil is almost directly on the Equator. A 5 minute taxi ride from the city center is a monument on the Equator. There is also a football stadium with each half of the field in either hemisphere.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve crossed the Equator many times, but only on planes and ships. Stepping across it, or even juggling directly on it, is a long term &#8220;unticked box&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>\nTick!<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Marco Zero monument.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/travelpodcast\/20110113\/20110113-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Marco Zero monument.\"><\/p>\n<p>\nFor some reason, the locals were balancing eggs on the equator line. I never worked out why.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/travelpodcast\/20110113\/20110113-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"For some reason, the locals were balancing eggs on the equator line. I never worked out why.\"><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s a quick experiment with double exposure self portrait. My wide angle lens is broken, so I had to keep returning to reset the camera between exposures, even though I have a wireless remote control. The result? I&#8217;m not actually looking at myself across the equator!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/travelpodcast\/20110113\/20110113-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Here's a quick experiment with double exposure self portrait. My wide angle lens is broken, so I had to keep returning to reset the camera between exposures, even though I have a wireless remote control. The result? I'm not actually looking at myself across the equator!\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis road runs exactly along the equator. I wish I took a photo back along the road towards the monument.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/travelpodcast\/20110113\/20110113-4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"This road runs exactly along the equator. I wish I took a photo back along the road towards the monument.\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA dog relaxing in the shade of a bank.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/travelpodcast\/20110113\/20110113-5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A dog relaxing in the shade of a bank.\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI got some fun videos in Brazil. I&#8217;ll share that in another post.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macapa, Brazil is almost directly on the Equator. A 5 minute taxi ride from the city center is a monument on the Equator. There is also a football stadium with each half of the field in either hemisphere. I&#8217;ve crossed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1255\">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":[],"categories":[51,27,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}