{"id":555,"date":"2012-10-14T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:43:30","slug":"worlds-best-7900-mile-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s best 7,900-mile shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/earth\/geophysics\/question3731.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"That's a big hole.\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d4\/Dried_out_well_with_steps.jpg\" alt=\"That's a big hole.\" width=\"205\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Rajeev Nair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From where you currently stand, the farthest you can travel on Earth is about 7,900 miles (12,700 kilometers) straight down. What\u2019s more, were it not for some pesky geophysical realities such as crushing pressure, scorching heat and differential rotation spoiling your fun, you could get there in less than 45 minutes. All you need is a modest tunnel \u2026 right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/earth\/geophysics\/question373.htm\" target=\"_blank\">What would happen if I drilled a tunnel through the center of the Earth and jumped into it?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From where you currently stand, the farthest you can travel on Earth is about 7,900 miles (12,700 kilometers) straight down. What\u2019s more, were it not for some pesky geophysical realities such as crushing pressure, scorching heat and differential rotation spoiling your fun, you could get there in less than 45 minutes. All you need is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The world&#8217;s best 7,900-mile shortcut<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,94,50,74,3,43],"tags":[81,465,462,459,464,457,263,460,458,456,463,461,364],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-engineering","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-science","category-travel","tag-aerodynamics","tag-angular-momentum","tag-chunnel","tag-core","tag-coriolis-effect","tag-crust","tag-gravity","tag-harmonic-motion","tag-mantle","tag-mole-men","tag-the-kola-superdeep-borehole","tag-thought-experiment","tag-urban-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}