{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "If You Grew Up Somewhere Rural, You Probably Have a Better Sense of Direction", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/686113100344229888/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://href.li/?https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a39640479/people-from-rural-areas-better-sense-of-direction/\",\"display_url\":\"https://href.li/?https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a39640479/people-from-rural-areas-better-sense-of-direction/\",\"title\":\"If You Grew Up Somewhere Rural, You Probably Have a Better Sense of Direction\",\"description\":\"Raised in a city with a grid system? Your navigation skills are probably suffering.\",\"site_name\":\"Popular Mechanics\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"652abc0b1feaf33ae04e0eb7bc464f53:e557be8616911aeb-5b\",\"type\":\"image/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":602}]}'><a href=\"https://href.li/?https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a39640479/people-from-rural-areas-better-sense-of-direction/\" target=\"_blank\">If You Grew Up Somewhere Rural, You Probably Have a Better Sense of Direction</a></p><p>I don&rsquo;t know what it was but until I visited home last Christmas after the personality change I just didn&rsquo;t have a good integrated geographic sense of where I grew up \u2013 I registered it as a series of linear paths with totally random Clue-style secret passages between them I guess \u2013 but possibly in compensation I have <i>amazing</i> dead reckoning uh\u2026 reckoning, you can drag me all around in circles uphill and downhill and I will retain a sense of what exact direction and how far away my starting point is</p>"}