{"id":42402,"date":"2022-03-14T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/i-cant-explain-it-the-man-behind-the-wheels-doors-twitter-post-that-exploded-online"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:55:43","slug":"i-cant-explain-it-the-man-behind-the-wheels-doors-twitter-post-that-exploded-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42402","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t explain it\u2019: the man behind the wheels-doors Twitter post that \u2018exploded\u2019 online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago New Zealander Ryan Nixon created a social media poll for his fewer than 1,500 followers \u2013 the rest is history<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealander who unwittingly sparked an agonising global debate over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/shortcuts\/2022\/mar\/08\/are-there-more-wheels-or-doors-in-the-world-why-we-cant-resist-an-internet-debate\">whether there are more doors or wheels in the world<\/a> has come to his own conclusion \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m firmly team wheels\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland man Ryan Nixon, 37, was at home watching sport two Saturday nights ago when a friend posed the question to a group chat he shares with a bunch of mates. Unable to reach a consensus, he decided to create a poll for his fewer than 1,500 Twitter followers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/i-cant-explain-it-the-man-behind-the-wheels-doors-twitter-post-that-exploded-online\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago New Zealander Ryan Nixon created a social media poll for his fewer than 1,500 followers \u2013 the rest is historyThe New Zealander who unwittingly sparked an agonising global debate over whether there are more doors or wheels in the world has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42403,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42402\/revisions\/42403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}