{"id":1087,"date":"2008-12-31T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/31\/what-will-you-do-with-all-that-extra-time\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T08:53:00","slug":"what-will-you-do-with-all-that-extra-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/31\/what-will-you-do-with-all-that-extra-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What will you do with all that extra time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Eager to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression? You&#8217;ll have to wait a second.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the custodians of time are preparing to tack a &#8220;leap second&#8221; onto the clock on Wednesday to account for the minute slowing of the Earth&#8217;s rotation \u2014 meaning champagne toasts and Auld Lang Synes will have to come a second late.<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iV3KdUj67O1boDiT85tnVn1qRT8wD95D3BGO0\">The Associated Press: Scientists prolong gloom of 2008<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just the facts: the first leap second was added in 1972, and the most recent one was in 2005.  More info (and less editorializing) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/time\/leapseconds.html\">timeanddate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eager to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression? You&#8217;ll have to wait a second. That&#8217;s because the custodians of time are preparing to tack a &#8220;leap second&#8221; onto the clock on Wednesday to account for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}