{"id":717,"date":"2012-02-05T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2012-02-04T23:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T05:52:31","slug":"hello-my-name-is-charles-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Hello, my name is Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people say that the Chinese celebrate New Years at an odd time.\u00a0 Fact is, for thousands of years, New Years was based on the planting or harvesting seasons.\u00a0 China and ancient Rome both had New Years in spring, while the Jewish and Celtics celebrated it in fall.\u00a0 March 1 was New Years in Rome until Julius Caesar set it to <em>January<\/em> 1.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t until the 1700s that all of Christendom accepted January 1 as New Years.\u00a0 Historically, <em>we\u2019re<\/em> the odd ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people say that the Chinese celebrate New Years at an odd time.\u00a0 Fact is, for thousands of years, New Years was based on the planting or harvesting seasons.\u00a0 China and ancient Rome both had New Years in spring, while[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=717\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}