{"id":4121,"date":"2009-11-16T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2009-11-16T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T08:00:49","slug":"astronomical-clocks-literally-and-metaphorically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4121","title":{"rendered":"Astronomical Clocks \u2013 Literally and Metaphorically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trifter.com\/europe\/czech-republic\/astronomical-clocks-literally-and-metaphorically\/\">Astronomical Clocks \u2013 Literally and Metaphorically<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term astronomical clock is one that is used fairly loosely.  Effectively any clock that shows astronomical information \u2013 as well as the time \u2013 can be so classified.  They can show the location of the sun in the sky, for example.  In addition to that they can show the position of the moon \u2013 and further information such as its phase and its age.  Others go further and show the current sign of the zodiac or even go as far as showing a rotating map of the stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomical Clocks \u2013 Literally and Metaphorically The term astronomical clock is one that is used fairly loosely. Effectively any clock that shows astronomical information \u2013 as well as the time \u2013 can be so classified. They can show the location &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4121\">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":[21,53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-tech","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}