{"id":28558,"date":"2023-03-27T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28558"},"modified":"2023-03-27T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:16:03","slug":"what-is-time-and-who-controls-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28558","title":{"rendered":"What is time and who controls it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI once went on a one-day course on time held at London\u2019s City Literary Institute. The morning speaker was a physicist who explained that time was everything that had happened since the \u2018big bang\u2019 13.8 billion years ago until now. The afternoon speaker was a philosopher who declared that there was no such thing as time.\n<p>\nCurrently, in the troubled small state of Lebanon, there is a disagreement over whether the clocks have gone forward or not, so that literally some people are expected to be in two places at once. You can read more about this odd state of affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/26\/lebanon-split-into-two-time-zones-in-row-over-daylight-saving?fbclid=IwAR0EaUurQlvFDfq9hQtO_cUoHKXIfgnvI3ocpgYc4JBbJXu6MVFKN7Eyix0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once went on a one-day course on time held at London\u2019s City Literary Institute. The morning speaker was a physicist who explained that time was everything that had happened since the \u2018big bang\u2019 13.8 billion years ago until now. The afternoon speaker was a philosopher who declared that there was no such thing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558","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=28558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28564,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions\/28564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}