{"id":131449,"date":"2021-11-29T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/timekeeping-is-a-universal-human-obsession"},"modified":"2021-11-29T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:45:42","slug":"timekeeping-is-a-universal-human-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/timekeeping-is-a-universal-human-obsession","title":{"rendered":"Timekeeping Is A Universal Human Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/timekeeping-is-a-universal-human-obsession.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many of us, this is a part of the year when we are acutely aware of time and timekeeping, even more so than usual. Thanks in part to the changing of clocks I talked about in my last post, it gets dark much earlier, and there\u2019s another month or so to go of the days getting shorter and the nights longer (in the northern hemisphere, anyway; if you\u2019re in most of South America, much of Africa, or Australia, enjoy your long summer days\u2026). We\u2019re also coming into the cluster of solstice-related holidays\u2014 Hanukkah started last night, and Christmas is fast approaching\u2014 so a lot of kids are counting down days, and adults juggling family and social commitments and trying to find time to shop for gifts. The preceding might make this seem like a particularly Western preoccupation. That\u2019s true in a narrow sense\u2014 the holidays of the moment are Jewish and Christian, and there\u2019s nothing all that significant happening in, say, the Muslim world for the next couple of months\u2014 but in fact basically every human culture we know much about has devoted significant energy to the tracking of time. Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, this is a part of the year when we are acutely aware of time and timekeeping, even more so than usual. Thanks in part to the changing of clocks I talked about in my last post, it gets dark much earlier, and there\u2019s another month or so to go of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}