{"id":7005,"date":"2004-07-13T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/07\/13\/the-ultimate-flip-flop\/"},"modified":"2004-07-13T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T16:22:01","slug":"the-ultimate-flip-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/07\/the-ultimate-flip-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Flip-Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articles\">The collapse of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago. The field&#8217;s strength has waned 10 to 15 percent, and the deterioration has accelerated of late, increasing debate over whether it portends a reversal of the lines of magnetic force that normally envelop the Earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">During a reversal, the main field weakens, almost vanishes, then reappears with opposite polarity. Afterward, compass needles that normally point north would point south, and during the thousands of years of transition, much in the heavens and Earth would go askew.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/13\/science\/13magn.html?ex=1090296000&#038;en=c55876e9187702ef&#038;ei=5006&#038;partner=ALTAVISTA1\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if John Kerry has anything to do with the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field flip-flopping? Well he doesn&#8217;t exactly have a magnetic personality, so probably not. In fact if a compass was based on his magnetism it would probably point both north and south at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago. The field&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}