{"id":39409,"date":"2017-01-26T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39409"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:17:22","slug":"north-americas-geographical-center-may-north-dakota-town-called-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/north-americas-geographical-center-may-north-dakota-town-called-center.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;North America\u2019s Geographical Center May Be in a North Dakota Town Called Center&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39410\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/Map_of_North_Dakota_NA.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39410\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39410\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/Map_of_North_Dakota_NA-1024x791.png\" alt=\"Map of North Dakota\" width=\"597\" height=\"461\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My father was born about seventeen miles north of Devils Lake, North Dakota, which, by any reckoning, is reasonably close to the geographical center of North America. Which is entirely appropriate, since I\u2019m declaring today that I myself am the geographical center of North America, wherever I happen to be at any given time. \u00a0(Government map in the public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The question of determining a continent\u2019s precise center is somewhat more difficult than one might assume at first glance. \u00a0But we can take comfort in the fact that, this being the United States of America, there\u2019s a possibility of litigation!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/25\/science\/north-america-geographical-center-north-dakota.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/25\/science\/north-america-geographical-center-north-dakota.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, neither Manhattan nor Hollywood appears to be in the running for the title.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The question of determining a continent\u2019s precise center is somewhat more difficult than one might assume at first glance. \u00a0But we can take comfort in the fact that, this being the United States of America, there\u2019s a possibility of litigation! \u00a0 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/25\/science\/north-america-geographical-center-north-dakota.html \u00a0 Surprisingly, neither Manhattan nor Hollywood appears to be in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;North America\u2019s Geographical Center May Be in a North Dakota Town Called Center&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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