{"id":8241,"date":"2009-11-26T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2009-11-27T03:14:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T11:14:45","slug":"something-id-learned-from-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/8241","title":{"rendered":"Something I&#8217;d learned from my father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1093\/533618389_f6962daae1.jpg\" width=\"425\"><br \/>\n<em>Marker for the International Dateline from a front yard on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taveuniislandfiji.com\/guide\/international-dateline-fiji.cfm\"target=\"_blank\">Taveuni;<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7435671@N02\/533618389\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My dad was a navigator during World War II. He knew a lot about celestial navigation, time zones and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Date_Line\" target=\"_blank\">International Dateline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I once asked him if one traveled fast enough and could cross the International Dateline <em>backwards<\/em> \u2013 repeatedly \u2013 would they have to subtract a day each time &nbsp;. . . <\/p>\n<p>And as a result, would one end up traveling back in time?<\/p>\n<p>He said,<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/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=\"Something I'd learned from my father\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/8241\"  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>Marker for the International Dateline from a front yard on Taveuni; via Flickr My dad was a navigator during World War II. He knew a lot about celestial navigation, time zones and the International Dateline. I once asked him if one traveled fast enough and could cross the International Dateline backwards \u2013 repeatedly \u2013 would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","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=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}