{"id":22335,"date":"2010-11-07T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=22335"},"modified":"2010-11-07T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T07:40:30","slug":"astronomical-clock-in-strasbourg-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22335","title":{"rendered":"Astronomical Clock in Strasbourg Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rinblad\/2644715640\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Astrological_Clock.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The cathedral&#8217;s south transept houses an 18-metre astronomical clock, one of the largest in the world &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; The astronomical part is unusually accurate; it indicates leap years, equinoxes, and much more astronomical data. Thus it was already much more a complex calculating machine than a bare clock.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photography by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rinblad\/2644715640\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Rinblad.<\/a> More about the clock <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strasbourg_astronomical_clock\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Astronomical Clock in Strasbourg Cathedral\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22335\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The cathedral&#8217;s south transept houses an 18-metre astronomical clock, one of the largest in the world &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; The astronomical part is unusually accurate; it indicates leap years, equinoxes, and much more astronomical data. Thus it was already much more a complex calculating machine than a bare clock.&#8217; Photography by Peter Rinblad. More about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,75,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-photography","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22343,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335\/revisions\/22343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}