{"id":129921,"date":"2016-02-29T08:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/happy-leap-day.html"},"modified":"2016-02-29T08:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T15:17:24","slug":"happy-leap-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/happy-leap-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Leap Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure where February went, but we get a little bit extra of it this year. And today&#39;s Google Doodle.<\/p>\n<p>(While it would make much more sense to remember Leap Years based on 2000, a 1st Grade song snippet forces me to always calculate it from 1968. Which is probably why Leap Years always catch me by surprise these days.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/g.co\/doodle\/hf4vz7'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/D_2YvclP_mU0V3x7_z6-KC74Icw5AnfTLTd5DOboZQc5uB4pFGTso7BrOSv8z2NqExX_gRSDoM4JFRfgUnkeH2rBjPMgrzXFCYAglOyxc8NESvssMY4tEm1PN6h9_Gc=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/g.co\/doodle\/hf4vz7'>Google<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the 29th of February! #leapyear #GoogleDoodle\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/49PLuBFVtkB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure where February went, but we get a little bit extra of it this year. And today&#39;s Google Doodle. (While it would make much more sense to remember Leap Years based on 2000, a 1st Grade song snippet forces me to always calculate it from 1968. Which is probably why Leap Years always catch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/happy-leap-day.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Leap Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32543,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/cat-leap.html","url_meta":{"origin":129921,"position":0},"title":"Cat Leap","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Feb-13 9:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"I could imagine Neko doing this, but Kunoichi would have about as much luck as I would in attaining that height. \u00a0(Also ... coolness on the body dynamics and twisting.)Reshared post from +Marco LeschKitty play time! #TGIF \u00a0 #Caturday \u00a0This post has been reshared 1 times on Google+ View this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26774,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/more-leap-year-calendaric-goodness.html","url_meta":{"origin":129921,"position":1},"title":"More Leap Year Calendaric Goodness","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Feb-12 10:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Measure time gets pretty goofy sometimes. #ddtb Embedded Link How the Quest for the Perfect Calendar Accidentally Created February 30 A year is almost exactly 365 days...almost, but not quite. 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