{"id":22018,"count":2,"description":"West is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.\nWest is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of east and is perpendicular to north and south.\nBy convention, the left side of a map is west.\nTo go west using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 270\u00b0.\nWest is the direction opposite that of the Earth's rotation on its axis, and is therefore the general direction towards which the Sun sets.\nDuring the Cold War \"the West\" was often used to refer to the NATO camp as opposed to the Warsaw Pact and non-aligned nations. The expression survives, with an increasingly ambiguous meaning.\nMoving continuously west is following a circle of latitude, which, except in the case of the equator, is not a great circle.\nThe word west is derived from the name of one of the four dwarves in Norse mythology, Nor\u00f0ri, Su\u00f0ri, Austri and Vestri, who each represented one of the directions of the world. cf Greek hesperus and Roman vesper.\nIn...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/west\/","name":"West","slug":"west","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/22018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=22018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}