{"id":11175,"date":"2012-02-29T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2012-02-29T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:08:54","slug":"calendars-arent-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11175","title":{"rendered":"Calendars Aren&#039;t Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It is extraordinary hubris for any civilization to presume that its calendar will still be in use in 1,000 years<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have already noted the strange history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/76\">Swedish adoption<\/a> of the Gregorian calendar and leap days, but here&#8217;s another article that puts a personal touch on the existence of February 30, in 1712, along with more history of our calendars.  <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203960804577241612978783838.html\">The Drama of Measuring the Days of Our Lives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is extraordinary hubris for any civilization to presume that its calendar will still be in use in 1,000 years I have already noted the strange history of the Swedish adoption of the Gregorian calendar and leap days, but here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}