{"id":7335,"date":"2018-12-29T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7335"},"modified":"2020-12-29T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:32:44","slug":"on-compasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7335","title":{"rendered":"On Compasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-reddit-rtjson=\"{&quot;entityMap&quot;:{},&quot;blocks&quot;:[{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;a8c8&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Thought I had a horrible sense of direction because I'd get lost any time I had to follow \\&quot;head north on\\&quot; type directions. It wasn't a big deal to me -- GPS had been a thing for years and everyone has a cell phone &amp; navigation anyway. And I contained my hiking to well-marked trails when I'd go out adventuring. A friend offered to help figure out my error because it wasn't like \\&quot;sense of direction\\&quot; is relevant when following instructions. He wrote up directions from his hunting cabin over to the duck blind, and we both had a compass and the instructions. Walked out onto the porch, took a few steps, and realized we were both going in different directions. He came back over to see how I'd managed to get lost already. Head SE 300 meters ... OK, get red pointy direction thing to SE, walk 300 meters. He gave me a funny look and asked if I knew how compasses worked. \\&quot;Of course, magnetic North attract ... oooooooh\\&quot;. &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;blockquote&quot;,&quot;inlineStyleRanges&quot;:[],&quot;entityRanges&quot;:[],&quot;data&quot;:{}},{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;c4fkb&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;unstyled&quot;,&quot;depth&quot;:0,&quot;inlineStyleRanges&quot;:[],&quot;entityRanges&quot;:[],&quot;data&quot;:{}}]}\">Thought I had a horrible sense of direction because I&#8217;d get lost any time I had to follow &#8220;head north on&#8221; type directions. It wasn&#8217;t a big deal to me &#8212; GPS had been a thing for years by the time I was driving myself around with any frequency (later everyone had a cell phone &amp; navigation). I just contained my hiking to well-marked trails when I&#8217;d go out adventuring. Sure, it would have been nice to hike the poorly marked parts of the <span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">GRP<\/span><\/span> trails in France. But there are *plenty* of marked and worn trails available. Never felt like I was missing out &#8230; it was more of a funny quirk.<\/div>\n<div data-reddit-rtjson=\"{&quot;entityMap&quot;:{},&quot;blocks&quot;:[{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;a8c8&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Thought I had a horrible sense of direction because I'd get lost any time I had to follow \\&quot;head north on\\&quot; type directions. It wasn't a big deal to me -- GPS had been a thing for years and everyone has a cell phone &amp; navigation anyway. And I contained my hiking to well-marked trails when I'd go out adventuring. A friend offered to help figure out my error because it wasn't like \\&quot;sense of direction\\&quot; is relevant when following instructions. He wrote up directions from his hunting cabin over to the duck blind, and we both had a compass and the instructions. Walked out onto the porch, took a few steps, and realized we were both going in different directions. He came back over to see how I'd managed to get lost already. Head SE 300 meters ... OK, get red pointy direction thing to SE, walk 300 meters. He gave me a funny look and asked if I knew how compasses worked. \\&quot;Of course, magnetic North attract ... oooooooh\\&quot;. &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;blockquote&quot;,&quot;inlineStyleRanges&quot;:[],&quot;entityRanges&quot;:[],&quot;data&quot;:{}},{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;c4fkb&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;unstyled&quot;,&quot;depth&quot;:0,&quot;inlineStyleRanges&quot;:[],&quot;entityRanges&quot;:[],&quot;data&quot;:{}}]}\"><\/div>\n<div data-reddit-rtjson=\"{&quot;entityMap&quot;:{},&quot;blocks&quot;:[{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;a8c8&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Thought I had a horrible sense of direction because I'd get lost any time I had to follow \\&quot;head north on\\&quot; type directions. It wasn't a big deal to me -- GPS had been a thing for years and everyone has a cell phone &amp; navigation anyway. And I contained my hiking to well-marked trails when I'd go out adventuring. A friend offered to help figure out my error because it wasn't like \\&quot;sense of direction\\&quot; is relevant when following instructions. He wrote up directions from his hunting cabin over to the duck blind, and we both had a compass and the instructions. Walked out onto the porch, took a few steps, and realized we were both going in different directions. He came back over to see how I'd managed to get lost already. Head SE 300 meters ... OK, get red pointy direction thing to SE, walk 300 meters. He gave me a funny look and asked if I knew how compasses worked. \\&quot;Of course, magnetic North attract ... oooooooh\\&quot;. &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;blockquote&quot;,&quot;inlineStyleRanges&quot;:[],&quot;entityRanges&quot;:[],&quot;data&quot;:{}},{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;c4fkb&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;unstyled&quot;,&quot;depth&quot;:0,&quot;inlineStyleRanges&quot;:[],&quot;entityRanges&quot;:[],&quot;data&quot;:{}}]}\">I&#8217;d offhandedly mentioned my navigational issues to a friend around 2007. He offered to help figure out my error because it wasn&#8217;t like &#8220;sense of direction&#8221; is relevant when following instructions (and, obviously, a compass wouldn&#8217;t just &#8220;not work right&#8221; for me). He wrote up directions from his hunting cabin over to the duck blind, and we both had a compass and the instructions. Walked out onto the porch, took a few steps, and realized we were both going in different directions. He came back over to see how I&#8217;d managed to get lost already. Head SE 300 meters &#8230; OK, get red pointy direction thing to SE, walk 300 meters. He gave me a funny look and asked if I knew how compasses worked. &#8220;Of course, magnetic North attract &#8230; oooooooh&#8221;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I had a horrible sense of direction because I&#8217;d get lost any time I had to follow &#8220;head north on&#8221; type directions. It wasn&#8217;t a big deal to me &#8212; GPS had been a thing for years by the time I was driving myself around with any frequency (later everyone had a cell phone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1232,1230,1231],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-compass","tag-hiking","tag-navigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}