{"id":39952,"date":"2018-05-06T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/06\/ditching-the-satnav-the-lost-secrets-of-natural-navigation\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T23:05:04","slug":"ditching-the-satnav-the-lost-secrets-of-natural-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=39952","title":{"rendered":"Ditching the satnav: the lost secrets of natural navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature is full of clues to help you find your way \u2013 if you know where to look. Stuart Heritage lets go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation from pioneer Tristan GooleyTristan Gooley has got me lost in the middle of London \u2013 which, I\u2019ll admit, isn\u2019t a terribly huge achievement. I\u2019m routinely lost in the middle of London. My journeys tend to consist of a hard stare at a map app, 50 paces in the wrong direction and then a kind of abject sustained fumble until I arrive at wherever I\u2019m supposed to be 10 minutes after I\u2019m supposed to be there. And that\u2019s me with Google Maps. Without Google Maps, I\u2019m 80% sure I would have given up and moved into a ditch some years ago.However, this time is different. Gooley, often known as the Natural Navigator, has got me lost on purpose. He\u2019s covered my eyes and led me by the arm through the backstreets of central London, taking time to spin me around every now and again for maximum disorientation. And now, right in the middle of nowhere, he\u2019s asked me to take him to one specific Oxford Street branch of Wasabi. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/may\/06\/ditching-the-satnav-the-lost-secrets-of-natural-navigation\" target=\"_blank\">Ditching the satnav: the lost secrets of natural navigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature is full of clues to help you find your way \u2013 if you know where to look. Stuart Heritage lets go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation from pioneer Tristan GooleyTristan Gooley has got me lost in the middle of London \u2013 which, I\u2019ll admit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}