{"id":16,"date":"2016-10-08T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2016-10-08T04:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:39:26","slug":"what-the-heck-is-a-witness-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/08\/what-the-heck-is-a-witness-post\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Heck is a Witness Post?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_5679-e1475900473641.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_5679-e1475900473641-768x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C853\" alt=\"Witness Post Sign\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just an example of one of the odd little things that catch my attention. \u00a0I saw this sign near the field where my youngest daughter had soccer practice this week. \u00a0I wonder about its history and its purpose &#8212; the sign has certainly shown some wear and tear! \u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._National_Geodetic_Survey\">Wikipedia<\/a> (&lt;sarcasm&gt;the most trustworthy of sources&lt;\/sarcasm&gt;):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <b>National Geodetic Survey<\/b> (<b>NGS<\/b>), formerly the <b>United States Survey of the Coast<\/b> (1807\u20131836), <b>United States Coast Survey<\/b> (1836\u20131878), and <b>United States Coast and Geodetic Survey<\/b> (<b>USC&amp;GS<\/b>) (1878\u20131970), is a <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"United States federal government\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_federal_government\">United States federal agency<\/a> that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing the foundation for transportation and communication; mapping and charting; and a large number of applications of science and engineering. Since its foundation in its present form in 1970, it has been part of the <a title=\"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a> (NOAA), of the <a title=\"United States Department of Commerce\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Department_of_Commerce\">United States Department of Commerce<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder if I could find that &#8220;nearby survey marker&#8221;&#8230;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just an example of one of the odd little things that catch my attention. \u00a0I saw this sign near the field where my youngest daughter had soccer practice this week. \u00a0I wonder about its history and its purpose &#8212; the sign has certainly shown some wear and tear! \u00a0According to Wikipedia (&lt;sarcasm&gt;the most trustworthy of sources&lt;\/sarcasm&gt;): The National Geodetic Survey (NGS), formerly the United States Survey of the Coast (1807\u20131836), United States Coast Survey (1836\u20131878), and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&amp;GS) (1878\u20131970), is a United States federal agency that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,23,20,24,22,21],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-history","tag-old-stuff","tag-photo","tag-sign","tag-survey-marker","tag-witness-post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}