{"id":2166,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:16:07","slug":"sextant-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sextant-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sextant Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Dear Steve and Linda: Have your Encyclopedia and am now on my second reading to really start nailing down the key points you make&#8230;what a great book&#8230;couple of quickies I have now&#8230;Do you navigate with GPs with celestial as backup? Thanks, Richard <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Richard: Yes, we always carry a sextant and current data for celestial bodies. But I must admit since the advent of Sat Nav and then GPS my sextant&#8211;which got us safely around the world&#8211;is not getting a lot (really, not any) use. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Steve and Linda: Have your Encyclopedia and am now on my second reading to really start nailing down the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sextant-backup\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-navigation-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36532,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/36532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}