{"id":6699,"date":"2023-01-01T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2023-01-06T07:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T12:27:39","slug":"it-is-almost-the-year-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/01\/it-is-almost-the-year-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"It is (almost) the year 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy new year, everyone. The calendar says it is 2023. From the perspective of our orbit about the Sun &#8211; the solar year &#8211; we are still several hours from that mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earth takes 365.25 Gregorian calendar days to make one orbit about the Sun. As a result, every fourth year we have quietly added one solar day too many to our year, but not our calendar. Thus we must leap (add) a day at the end of February to get back on track. (2024 is the next &#8220;leap year&#8221; as a result) If we did not, the seasons would slowly drift around the calendar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new solar year does not begin until something like 4pm Eastern Standard Time today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like this buys me just a little extra time to reflect on the year that was: a year of change, a year of joy, a year of movement. No year is perfect. 2022 was pretty darn good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year, everyone. The calendar says it is 2023. From the perspective of our orbit about the Sun &#8211; the solar year &#8211; we are still several hours from that mark. Earth takes 365.25 Gregorian calendar days to make one orbit about the Sun. As a result, every fourth year we have quietly added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wp-16725850210858411493047881617346-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}