{"id":3507,"date":"2014-02-17T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2014-10-29T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:49:21","slug":"xkcds-answer-to-world-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/02\/xkcds-answer-to-world-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd&#8217;s Answer to <i>World Clock<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block; float:right\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1331\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sslimgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/frequency\/heartbeat.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"50\" alt=\"From xkcd comic 1331\" \/><\/a>&#8230; is today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1331\/\">comic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s true, Randall probably did not know about _World Clock_ (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/book\/world_clock\/\">book,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/code\/world_clock.py\">code<\/a>). Maybe he didn&#8217;t even know about my inspirations, Harry Mathews&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jacketmagazine.com\/03\/mathews03.html\">&#8220;The Chronogram for 1998&#8221;<\/a> or Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s _One Human Minute._<\/p>\n<p>In that case it&#8217;s an unwitting answer.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s a nice one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is today&#8217;s comic. And it&#8217;s true, Randall probably did not know about _World Clock_ (book, code). Maybe he didn&#8217;t even know about my inspirations, Harry Mathews&#8217;s &#8220;The Chronogram for 1998&#8221; or Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s _One Human Minute._ In that case it&#8217;s an unwitting answer. In any case, it&#8217;s a nice one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,32,21,166],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-constraint","tag-world-clock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}