{"id":184,"date":"2004-12-21T18:54:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=184"},"modified":"2004-12-21T18:54:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T23:54:37","slug":"184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparentyly <a href=\"http:\/\/henry.pha.jhu.edu\/rch.html\" target=\"_new\">this guy<\/a><br \/>\nthinks it would be a good idea if the calendar was identical every<br \/>\nyear.&nbsp; This means, for example, March 7th would always be on&nbsp;<br \/>\na wednesday.&nbsp; Christmas and New Years would always fall on<br \/>\nsunday.&nbsp; That&#8217;s weird<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s weirder is that to keep it in line with the seasons, every 5 or<br \/>\n6 years (similar to leap years in the Gregorian calendar) there would<br \/>\nbe an additional week-long mini-month, which he has dubbed &#8220;Newton<br \/>\nWeek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also proposes everyone switching over to GMT, rather then having seperate time zones, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This is all interesting and I would think maybe it could happen<br \/>\neventually, but I think it&#8217;s really funny that his target date for<br \/>\nachieving this is January 1, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparentyly this guy thinks it would be a good idea if the calendar was identical every year.&nbsp; This means, for example, March 7th would always be on&nbsp; a wednesday.&nbsp; Christmas and New Years would always fall on sunday.&nbsp; That&#8217;s weird What&#8217;s weirder is that to keep it in line with the seasons, every 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}