{"id":114779,"date":"2026-06-08T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/why-did-measuring-earths-true-shape-matter-for-science-aeon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:04:12","slug":"why-did-measuring-earths-true-shape-matter-for-science-aeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/why-did-measuring-earths-true-shape-matter-for-science-aeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did measuring Earth\u2019s true shape matter for science? &#8211; Aeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxPTEZSZWZLdHBtTlJFbDhFMXYzb3pHc05kcmIza0lpU1NzRFJ1d3VsbXAxTzQyOElkcEVoVWRPdElLMGpIOUFDaWh0X0tHRXpadTRaaFliYzdPbEllVlozcVZ2cFctM2haLWpqREFjcEN5c0lLSHRQSENjZGpQNTloRzVQUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Why did measuring Earth\u2019s true shape matter for science?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Aeon<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did measuring Earth\u2019s true shape matter for science?&nbsp;&nbsp;Aeon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}