{"id":81674,"date":"2018-08-12T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/indias-impressive-concept-about-nothing"},"modified":"2018-08-12T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:02:22","slug":"indias-impressive-concept-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/indias-impressive-concept-about-nothing","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s impressive concept about nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-impressive-concept-about-nothing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Gwalior, a congested city in the centre of the India, an 8th-Century fort rises with medieval swagger on a plateau in the town\u2019s heart. Gwalior Fort is one of India\u2019s largest forts; but look among the soaring cupola-topped towers, intricate carvings and colourful frescoes and you\u2019ll find a small, 9th-Century temple carved into its solid rock face.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> This is ground zero for zero<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaturbhuj Temple is much like many other ancient temples in India \u2013 except that this is ground zero for zero. It\u2019s famous for being the oldest example of zero as a written digit: carved into the temple wall is a 9th-Century inscription that includes the clearly visible number \u2018270\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20180807-how-india-gave-us-the-zero?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20180807-how-india-gave-us-t...k.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gwalior, a congested city in the centre of the India, an 8th-Century fort rises with medieval swagger on a plateau in the town\u2019s heart. Gwalior Fort is one of India\u2019s largest forts; but look among the soaring cupola-topped towers, intricate carvings and colourful frescoes and you\u2019ll find a small, 9th-Century temple carved into its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81674","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\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}