{"id":12856,"date":"2013-08-27T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=12856"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:03:59","slug":"right-side-up-crucial-thoughts-on-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/right-side-up-crucial-thoughts-on-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-side up? (crucial thoughts on perspective)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deceptology.com\/2010\/04\/upside-down-world-map-shows-north-is-up.html\"><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12857\" alt=\"map\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-10.52.00-AM-300x184.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-10.52.00-AM-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-10.52.00-AM-350x216.png 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-10.52.00-AM-150x92.png 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-10.52.00-AM-600x370.png 600w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-27-at-10.52.00-AM.png 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>North<\/em> is not &#8220;up&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sky is &#8220;up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>North is &#8220;that way&#8221; or &#8220;over there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe your maps have been all wrong and you just haven&#8217;t realized it.)<\/p>\n<p>I thought I lived &#8220;up&#8221; in North America. If I lived in Australia, though, I would NOT think of North America as &#8220;up&#8221; at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Depending where you are in the world North can be to the left, to the right, to the back, or to the front&#8230;but it&#8217;s never &#8220;up&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have to turn everything on its head to see better. When you do, the switch may be more &#8220;right-side up&#8221; or rather &#8220;proper-side up&#8221; depending on where you are at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe every map you&#8217;ve been given; be that an actual globe of the planet Earth, or some sort of path someone or some culture has told you to take.<\/p>\n<address>(click photo for source)<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North is not &#8220;up&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[4934,887,5928,4716,1763,4081,4591,2501,2552,3105,3429],"class_list":["post-12856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-america","tag-culture","tag-everything","tag-if","tag-in","tag-just","tag-map","tag-path","tag-photo","tag-sky","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}