{"id":71,"date":"2008-01-01T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:59:09","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all three of my blog readers!\u00a0 (&#8230;you know who you are)<\/p>\n<p>For today&#8217;s bit of esoteric knowledge, last night you may have noticed that we did not have a leap second adjustment this year.\u00a0 It turns out that man&#8217;s timekeeping has gotten more accurate than nature&#8217;s (&#8220;mean solar time&#8221;, the Earth&#8217;s rotation is slowing), and there&#8217;s a multi-year international debate about what to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>See Wikipedia for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leap_second\">the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all three of my blog readers!\u00a0 (&#8230;you know who you are) For today&#8217;s bit of esoteric knowledge, last night you may have noticed that we did not have a leap second adjustment this year.\u00a0 It turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/happy-new-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}