{"id":277690,"date":"2018-11-16T19:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/16\/early-time-travelers-measured-the-trips-in\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:41:50","slug":"early-time-travelers-measured-the-trips-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/16\/early-time-travelers-measured-the-trips-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quietpinetrees.tumblr.com\/post\/180118640763\/early-time-travelers-measured-the-trips-in\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">quietpinetrees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/509763f280f3ac1fe9bb76a37af9db35\/tumblr_pi7hqjbYd51tu0ngd_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEarly time travelers measured the trips in \u201cgrains,\u201d in reference to an hourglass, since they could only move a few seconds at a time. Later machines used grandfather clocks, and measured quarter-hours as \u201cchimes.\u201d The terms remain in use today; time travelers adore tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-QuietPineTrees<\/p>\n<p>If you adore tradition as well, you can sign up to receive typewritten microfictions sent to your doorstep in real, physical postcards! It\u2019s one of the rewards available to patrons of the new Quiet Pine Trees book!<\/p>\n<p class=\"npf_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Funbound.com%2Fbooks%2Fquiet-pine-trees&amp;t=NTViMjU0NDgwZDQxZWIyMmE5NWU2MGEwNzE5MDU1OGY3NWI2YmM4NSxhODZiOGUwY2U4NmExMWY4M2EzODllZmI3NjUzYjFkNWRhNjIwZDEx\" target=\"_blank\">Quiet Pine Trees<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quietpinetrees: \u201cEarly time travelers measured the trips in \u201cgrains,\u201d in reference to an hourglass, since they could only move a few seconds at a time. Later machines used grandfather clocks, and measured quarter-hours as \u201cchimes.\u201d The terms remain in use today; time travelers adore tradition.\u201d -QuietPineTrees If you adore tradition as well, you can sign &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/16\/early-time-travelers-measured-the-trips-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10718,2651,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}