{"id":222,"date":"2008-08-04T19:53:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2008-08-04T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T03:40:17","slug":"point-hope-ak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/point-hope-ak\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Hope, AK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The person who won <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/27\/8gb-ipod-touch-for-auction-sale\/\">the 8GB iPod Touch auction I had posted<\/a> lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_Hope,_Alaska\">Point Hope, AK<\/a> prompting me to ask how they ended up living there. Hopefully they&#8217;ll reply, because a place that remote is simply fascinating to me. In case you don&#8217;t know, Point Hope is a tiny place of 750 &#8211; 850 people located <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=point+hope,+ak&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;ll=61.058285,-158.90625&#038;spn=32.149204,96.855469&#038;z=4\">here<\/a>, quite a ways north of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bering_Strait\">Bering Strait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the aforementioned Wikipedia article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikigaq.com\/point_hope.shtml\">here&#8217;s another interesting article about Point Hope from the Tikigaq Corporation<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/samgipp.com\/GippEssay37.html\">here&#8217;s a short story from a missionary about flying in and out of the town<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s safe to say that I&#8217;ve now shipped iPod Touches for .11% of the residents of Point Hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person who won the 8GB iPod Touch auction I had posted lives in Point Hope, AK prompting me to ask how they ended up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/point-hope-ak\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Point Hope, AK<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}