{"id":4172,"date":"2013-09-15T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/kottke-posted-about-time-corrections-for-big-bens\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:19:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:19:14","slug":"kottke-posted-about-time-corrections-for-big-bens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/kottke-posted-about-time-corrections-for-big-bens\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4172 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/kottke-posted-about-time-corrections-for-big-bens\/attachment\/4173\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt67w4u0EJ1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt67w4u0EJ1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt67w4u0EJ1qzxaqho1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>Kottke<\/em> posted about\u00a0<a>Time corrections for Big Ben&rsquo;s chime<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The universal availability of accurate synchronized time is taken for granted in most areas of the world today, but &lsquo;twas not always so. When Big Ben was built in 1859, charts were issued to show the allowance that had to be made for the sound of the bell, traveling at ~768 mph, to reach different parts of London. This one is from 1875.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kottke posted about\u00a0Time corrections for Big Ben&rsquo;s chime: The universal availability of accurate synchronized time is taken for granted in most areas of the world today, but &lsquo;twas not always so. When Big Ben was built in 1859, charts were issued to show the allowance that had to be made for the sound of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/kottke-posted-about-time-corrections-for-big-bens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}