{"id":433276,"date":"2010-03-15T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/place\/45th-parallel-marker"},"modified":"2010-03-15T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:16:00","slug":"45th-parallel-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/433276","title":{"rendered":"45th Parallel Marker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image of 45th Parallel Marker located in Oconto, Wisconsin, US | Roadside park with marker\" title=\"Roadside park with marker\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/images\/place\/45th-parallel-marker.7948.main.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/45th-parallel-marker\">45th Parallel Marker<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One of a series of geographical markers set up by local newspaper editor Frank Noyes in the 1930s, some of the markers commemorate the exact half-way point between the North Pole and Equator, while others mark crossings of the 45th Latitude line (these are not the same point).<br \/>\nThis marking of the 45th Parallel is located in a small roadside park along the highway and is a lovely place to stop for a picnic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/45th-parallel-marker\">Read more about 45th Parallel Marker on Atlas Obscura&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Category: <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/category\/inspired-inventions\/marvelous-maps-and-measures\">Marvelous Maps and Measures<\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\/wisconsin\/oconto\">Oconto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\/wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/united-states\">US<\/a><br \/>Edited by: <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/user\/MattB\">MattB<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/user\/Dylan\">Dylan<\/a><br \/><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45th Parallel Marker Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole One of a series of geographical markers set up by local newspaper editor Frank Noyes in the 1930s, some of the markers commemorate the exact half-way point between the North Pole and Equator, while others mark crossings of the 45th Latitude line (these are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}