{"id":17,"date":"2012-03-04T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-03-04T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T10:59:42","slug":"how-long-is-world-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/how-long-is-world-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How long is World History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think of when you hear the words &#8220;World History&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>John Green believes it is 15,000 years long. He has produced a series of YouTube videos giving what he thinks are the main facts in the story.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if he is aware of the preceding 4,600 million.<\/p>\n<p>(Admittedly he does call it a &#8220;crash course&#8221; but this crash seems to have telescoped the story down to almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yocja_N5s1I\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think of when you hear the words &#8220;World History&#8221;? John Green believes it is 15,000 years long. He has produced a series of YouTube videos giving what he thinks are the main facts in the story. Not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/how-long-is-world-history\/\">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":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}