{"id":1932,"date":"2018-04-12T06:43:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T10:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2018-04-12T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:00:35","slug":"how-do-we-really-know-that-its-a-wednesday-whats-the-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/12\/how-do-we-really-know-that-its-a-wednesday-whats-the-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we really know that its a Wednesday? What&#8217;s the proof?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1925\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw04122018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1925\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aw04122018-3-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"How do we really know that its a Wednesday? What's the proof?\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How do we really know that its a Wednesday? What&#8217;s the proof?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Wednesday&#8221; is entirely a social construct. Which is to say that Wednesday doesn&#8217;t exist except in the sense that we say it exists (along with weeks, weekends, and months). So in that sense, it&#8217;s Wednesday (or&#8230;now Thursday as of this writing) because we all agree it is. There are plenty of calendars that don&#8217;t have the concept of Wednesday and therefore it is never Wednesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AltCalendars\">bit.ly\/AltCalendars<\/a>. Other time concepts (such as seconds, years, etc.) are derived from the natural world around us and proof for them is a bit more complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wednesday&#8221; is entirely a social construct. Which is to say that Wednesday doesn&#8217;t exist except in the sense that we say it exists (along with weeks, weekends, and months). So in that sense, it&#8217;s Wednesday (or&#8230;now Thursday as of this writing) because we all agree it is. There are plenty of calendars that don&#8217;t have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/12\/how-do-we-really-know-that-its-a-wednesday-whats-the-proof\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do we really know that its a Wednesday? What&#8217;s the proof?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}