{"id":183,"date":"2005-06-13T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-13T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T13:24:07","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Geocaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to find our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/faq\/\">geocache<\/a> at the weekend.  Geocaching is an outdoor &#8216;game&#8217; where you try to find caches (hidden boxes, for example) concealed by someone else: they publish the exact latitude and longitude of the cache, and you go to find it using your handheld GPS receiver.<\/p>\n<p>We found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/cache_details.aspx?guid=88d2363c-0272-495e-aca8-571476bfb490\">this one<\/a> which was actually a small treasure hunt.  The co-ordinates you&#8217;re given are for a sign at the entrance to the park, you need to read some numbers from it to form part of the co-ordinates for the next location.  You go through this routine a couple of times before you get the final co-ordinates of the cache itself.<\/p>\n<p>We had the final location nailed down, but couldn&#8217;t find the cache and were about to give up until one of us spotted it (thank you Louise!).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/images\/geocache1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Looking for cache\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/images\/geocache3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Finding cache\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All members of our group were happy to find it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/images\/geocache2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Heather with box\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ll go searching for some more of the local ones soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to find our first geocache at the weekend. Geocaching is an outdoor &#8216;game&#8217; where you try to find caches (hidden boxes, for example) concealed by someone else: they publish the exact latitude and longitude of the cache, and you go to find it using your handheld GPS receiver. We found this one which&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=183\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}