{"id":1588,"date":"2009-06-01T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2009-06-01T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:15:34","slug":"random-wikipedia-facts-2009-06-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/01\/random-wikipedia-facts-2009-06-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Wikipedia facts 2009 06 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A me and a couple of friends were arguing awhile last thursday about the most populous and also about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Population density\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Population_density\">population density<\/a> of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"City\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City\">cities<\/a>, based on wikipedia I was wrong and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tokyo\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.6833333333,139.766666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=35.6833333333,139.766666667%20%28Tokyo%29&amp;t=h\">tokyo<\/a> is both more populous and had a higher population density than seoul, but based on 2007 figures the population density of seoul is higher, but the argument is useles because Karachi,Cairo,Kolkota, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mumbai\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=18.96,72.82&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=18.96,72.82%20%28Mumbai%29&amp;t=h\">Mumbai<\/a> has about twice the population densities of both tokyo and seoul. The scary thing is that if we trust wikipedia the manila and alot of the other cities that comprise the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Metro Manila\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=14.5833333333,121.0&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=14.5833333333,121.0%20%28Metro%20Manila%29&amp;t=h\">metro manila<\/a> have population densities that are about 2-10x higher than that of karachi, this is wierd to me and does not pass the smell test, don&#8217;t know but this is really surprising for me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/c6f085ca-d495-45da-8cb3-5b435cccac5f\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A me and a couple of friends were arguing awhile last thursday about the most populous and also about population density of cities, based on wikipedia I was wrong and tokyo is both more populous and had a higher population density than seoul, but based on 2007 figures the population density of seoul is higher, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/01\/random-wikipedia-facts-2009-06-01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Wikipedia facts 2009 06 01&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,62],"tags":[189,338,514,928,976,1121,1122,1418],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment-of-the-day","category-personal-angol","tag-asia","tag-city","tag-environment","tag-metro-manila","tag-mumbai","tag-population","tag-population-density","tag-tokyo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}