{"id":376,"date":"2012-07-01T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=376"},"modified":"2012-07-01T03:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T03:13:21","slug":"an-extra-second-of-the-obama-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"An Extra Second of the Obama Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/leap-added-clock-blink-eye-article-1.1105600\">leap second<\/a> this fine evening.\u00a0 Supposedly the earth is slowing down, there seems to be a consensus on that.\u00a0 It might even be true, who knows.\u00a0 True or not, it means Obama gets an extra second in office, whether it&#8217;s four years or eight.\u00a0 Now it will be four years and one second or eight years and one second.\u00a0 If he&#8217;s installed for life, it won&#8217;t make a difference of course.<\/p>\n<p>This gives us extra incentive to get rid of him in November, before the scientists have a consensus that we need another extra second.\u00a0 It might happen before January 20, 2017.\u00a0 Of course, there is a wild card:\u00a0 Global warming.\u00a0 Global warming might <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2002-02-13\/tech\/earth.gas_1_warming-human-effect-primary-greenhouse-gas?_s=PM:TECH\">slow the earth<\/a>, according to CNN.\u00a0 But Scientific American says it could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=global-warming-shortens-day\">speed it up<\/a>.\u00a0 I suppose CNN considers Scientific American readers to be climate skeptics, and Scientific American considers CNN watchers to be climate skeptics, meaning damn near everybody could be a climate skeptic.<\/p>\n<p>What do they think of people who don&#8217;t believe any of this nonsense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we have a leap second this fine evening.\u00a0 Supposedly the earth is slowing down, there seems to be a consensus on that.\u00a0 It might even be true, who knows.\u00a0 True or not, it means Obama gets an extra second &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}