{"id":18783,"date":"2012-11-18T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18783"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:14:16","slug":"mexcaltitan-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mexcaltitan-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexcaltit\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mexcaltitan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18788\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"Mexcaltitan\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mexcaltitan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Mexcaltit\u00e1n <\/strong>is a small, inhabited island in North West Mexico which is laid out with concentric streets intersected by two perpendicular avenues<sup>(a)<\/sup>. Some locals compared its layout to that of old maps of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tenochtitlan\/\">Tenochtitl\u00e1n, <\/a>the legendary capital of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aztecs\/\">Aztecs<\/a>, which in turn has been proposed as having a connection with Atlantis. The idea is totally fanciful and does not stand up to the most cursory examination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.briannissen.com\/\u00a0 (link broken)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexcaltit\u00e1n is a small, inhabited island in North West Mexico which is laid out with concentric streets intersected by two perpendicular avenues(a). Some locals compared its layout to that of old maps of Tenochtitl\u00e1n, the legendary capital of the Aztecs, which in turn has been proposed as having a connection with Atlantis. The idea is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[278,2662,1614,42,1203],"class_list":["post-18783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aztecs","tag-brian-nissen","tag-mexcaltitan","tag-mexico","tag-tenochtitlan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67583,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions\/67583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}