{"id":25239,"date":"2016-04-30T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-leap-second-because-our-clocks-are-more-accurate-than-the-earth"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:02","slug":"the-leap-second-because-our-clocks-are-more-accurate-than-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-leap-second-because-our-clocks-are-more-accurate-than-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"The leap second: Because our clocks are more accurate than the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-leap-second-because-our-clocks-are-more-accurate-than-the-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Earth\u2019s lurches are erratic, so we don\u2019t even know when the next one is needed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/04\/the-leap-second-because-our-clocks-are-more-accurate-than-the-earth\/\">http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/04\/the-leap-second-becau...the-earth\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth\u2019s lurches are erratic, so we don\u2019t even know when the next one is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67596,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239\/revisions\/67596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}