{"id":16504,"date":"2015-01-08T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2015-01-08T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T12:59:26","slug":"why-2015-will-be-longer-than-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16504","title":{"rendered":"Why 2015 will be longer than 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; it&#8217;s not a leap year. \u00a0But this year is to last a second longer than 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made this week by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). A leap second is to be inserted at the very end of 30 June.<\/p>\n<p>Why? All is explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/shortcuts\/2015\/jan\/07\/why-this-year-longer-than-last-leap-second\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; it&#8217;s not a leap year. \u00a0But this year is to last a second longer than 2014. The decision was made this week by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). A leap second is to be inserted at the very end of 30 June. Why? All is explained here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16506,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions\/16506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}