{"id":168,"date":"2007-02-09T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/02\/09\/two-peaches-kill-three-knights\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T04:15:00","slug":"two-peaches-kill-three-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/02\/two-peaches-kill-three-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Two peaches kill three knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/ChinaExperience\/entry\/two_peaches_kill_three_knights\">Amiram<\/a> talked about the coincidence of Chinese and Jewish calendars.  They are actually more similar than most people think.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnbeknown to even most Chinese, the traditional <i>farmer&apos;s calendar<\/i>, or <i>YinLi<\/i> (Lunar calendar), is solar.  It divides a solar year into 24 periods; 4 of them correspond to the solstices and equinoxes.  These 24 periods have poetic names that describe the typical climate of that time or the important agricultural events, such as <i>harvesting time in the fall<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\nLunar phases mark the passing of the time and human-oriented events such as birthdays.  But a day starts at the solar midnight.  A month starts on the day of the new moon.  A year starts, usually, on the day of the 2nd new moon after winter solstice.<\/p>\n<p>\nJewish calendar is also solar-lunar.  Maybe someone can explain its intricates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amiram talked about the coincidence of Chinese and Jewish calendars. They are actually more similar than most people think. Unbeknown to even most Chinese, the traditional farmer&apos;s calendar, or YinLi (Lunar calendar), is solar. It divides a solar year into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/02\/two-peaches-kill-three-knights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}