{"id":362,"date":"2008-01-01T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T00:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-01-01T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T00:25:22","slug":"1421-the-year-china-discovered-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"1421: The Year China Discovered America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Menzies claims that a massive Chinese fleet of huge junks and support ships made a two-year circumnavigation of the globe, with extensive exploration of the Americas, nearly a century before Magellan and Columbus.  I think its good to look at situations like this.  A lot of people in the world are quick to dismiss this claim that the Chinese came before Columbus but its always good to think what if.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/01\/13\/1421\/index.html?imw=Y\">read more<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/general_sciences\/1421_The_Year_China_Discovered_America\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Menzies claims that a massive Chinese fleet of huge junks and support ships made a two-year circumnavigation of the globe, with extensive exploration of the Americas, nearly a century before Magellan and Columbus. I think its good to look at situations like this. A lot of people in the world are quick to dismiss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1421: The Year China Discovered America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}