{"id":839,"date":"2008-10-23T01:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T09:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=839"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:10:17","slug":"post-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Post Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a note the other day referring to <q>12:00p.m<\/q> when its author plainly meant <em>noon<\/em>.<\/p> <p>Okay, now, folks, <q><abbr title=\"post meridiem\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">p.m.<\/abbr><\/q> stands for <q><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">post meridiem<\/span><\/q> &mdash; <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">after noon<\/span>.  Noon isn't <em>after itself<\/em>.  There is a 12:01 <abbr title=\"post meridiem\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">p.m.<\/abbr>, a 12:00:01 <abbr title=\"post meridiem\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">p.m.<\/abbr>, a 12:00:00.0&#8230;01 <abbr title=\"post meridiem\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">p.m.<\/abbr>.  But if there is any 12:00 <abbr title=\"post meridiem\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\"><em>p.<\/em>m.<\/abbr>, then it would be <em>mid-night<\/em>; which, awkwardly, is also the only candidate for 12:00 <abbr title=\"ante meridiem\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\"><em>a.<\/em>m.<\/abbr>, since noon also isn't <em>before<\/em> noon (<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">ante meridiem<\/span>) either.<\/p> <p>Calling noon <q>12:00 <abbr title=\"meridies\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">m.<\/abbr><\/q> would just confuse people, as they'd take the <q><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">m.<\/span><\/q> as standing for <q>midnight<\/q>, but <q>12:00 <abbr title=\"noon\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">n.<\/abbr><\/q> is nicely unambiguous.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I got a note the other day referring to 12:00p.m when its author plainly meant noon. Okay, now, folks, p.m. stands for post meridiem &mdash; after noon. Noon isn't after itself. There is a 12:01 p.m., a 12:00:01 p.m., a 12:00:00.0&#8230;01 p.m.. But if there is any 12:00 p.m., then it would be mid-night; which, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[334,202],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-everyday-frustrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}