{"id":2352,"date":"2009-07-22T20:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T04:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2023-01-09T23:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T07:44:59","slug":"more-meaningless-zeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"more meaningless zeros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quirk in <a href=\"?p=2039\">DVD subtitles<\/a>: a phrase like &#8220;ten minutes before seven&#8221; is consistently rendered as <i>10 minutes before 7:00<\/i>.  Why not go all the way and make it <i>6:50<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>I am amused to find that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt>1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>takes exactly as many characters as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt>one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quirk in DVD subtitles: a phrase like &#8220;ten minutes before seven&#8221; is consistently rendered as 10 minutes before 7:00. Why not go all the way and make it 6:50? I am amused to find that 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}