{"id":21047,"date":"2021-01-21T06:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/?p=21047"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"leaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/leaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaping"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"An acquaintance on Facebook, someone we go to church with: Lorryn, celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday.\u00a0 She posted it as celebrating (number) days of life and proclaiming it a wonderful adventure.\u00a0 I thought that was pretty cool and wondered how many days it will have been when I celebrate my birthday in a couple weeks.\u00a0 A few taps on a calculator gave me a number.\u00a0 But wait, that doesn’t take into account leap years.\u00a0 How many leap years have I lived through?<\/p>\n

I found an on-line tool that answered that question.\u00a0 Guess how many leap years have occurred in my life.\u00a0 17.\u00a0 Lorryn was celebrating her 17th birthday and I’ve lived through 17 leap years.\u00a0 I found that interesting.<\/p>\n

You may now proceed with your day.\u00a0 Hopefully you will be able to function normally after that astounding revelation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An acquaintance on Facebook, someone we go to church with: Lorryn, celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday.  She posted it as celebrating (number) days of life and proclaiming it a wonderful adventure.  I thought that was pretty cool and wondered how many days it will have been when I celebrate my birthday in a couple weeks.  … Continue reading “Leaping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21059,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions\/21059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}