{"id":966,"date":"2014-04-06T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=966"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:15:20","slug":"april-2014-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"2014 April meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Of Clockwork and Shadows\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>by Andrew James<\/p>\n<p>The Equation of Time, the difference between \u201cclock time\u201d or mean time and \u201csundial time\u201d, may nowadays seem of little relevance, but it was formerly of great significance.<\/p>\n<p>What is it? Why does it exist? How does it change over time? Who measured it? How have clock and watchmakers reconciled the two time systems?<\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the topics Andrew James will discuss. Many ingenious mechanisms have been devised to show the Equation of Time on a clock, or to show solar time, and Andrew will explain a number of these and demonstrate some with computer animations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bwg_standart_thumbnails_0\">\n<div id=\"ajax_loading_0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Clockwork and Shadows\u00a0 by Andrew James The Equation of Time, the difference between \u201cclock time\u201d or mean time and \u201csundial time\u201d, may nowadays seem of little relevance, but it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=966\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2014 April meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings-2014-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}