{"id":869,"date":"2012-04-16T19:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-12-10T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T11:15:09","slug":"indian-boy-finds-home-after-25-years-using-gearth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/04\/indian-boy-finds-home-after-25-years-using-gearth\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian boy finds home after 25 years using GEarth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a hard to believe, fantastic-sounding headline and story, but since it is not April 1st and the story is brought to us by BBC News, I&#8217;ll go with it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A boy went missing in India and was later adopted by a Tasmanian couple. Using Google Earth he much later reconstructed potential locations of his home in India and set to searching on Google Earth. Below view reminded him of his childhood:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1497\" alt=\"Hmm, this does look familiar, somehow! (Source: BBC News)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Khandwa_India.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hmm, this does look familiar, somehow! (Source: BBC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17693816\">Read the rest of the story at BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/veryspatial.com\/2012\/04\/son-finds-long-lost-family-via-google-earth\/\">Veryspatial.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a hard to believe, fantastic-sounding headline and story, but since it is not April 1st and the story is brought to us by BBC News, I&#8217;ll go with it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/04\/indian-boy-finds-home-after-25-years-using-gearth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian boy finds home after 25 years using GEarth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[52,57,71],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-geo","tag-google","tag-mapping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Khandwa_India.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-e1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}