{"id":6469,"date":"2012-08-03T06:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:37:30","slug":"time-as-a-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6469","title":{"rendered":"Time as a Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every medieval town we saw on our European trip had a cathedral and a clock tower.\u00a0 In one of the towns, probably Bern, I realized that time used to be a monopoly of the church.\u00a0 They had the bell in the church steeple and since nobody had a clock when the priest pulled the bell to signal that it was noon, it was noon.\u00a0 It was until the late medieval era when civic governments got clocks and towers to put them in that the church lost its monopoly.\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 What monopolies exist today in the background that we don’t see because they are part of the fabric of our society?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If your interested in the beginning of the Renaissance read The Swerve<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> by Steven Greenblatt a nonfiction account of the rediscovery of Lucretius that reads like fiction.<\/p>\n

One more time question if you have time: Why does an hour have sixty minutes around the world?\u00a0 We use different languages distance and weight measures but time measurements seem to be universal.\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every medieval town we saw on our European trip had a cathedral and a clock tower.\u00a0 In one of the towns, probably Bern, I realized that time used to be a monopoly of the church.\u00a0 They had the bell in the church steeple and since nobody had a clock when the priest pulled the bell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[254,310,316,314],"class_list":["post-6469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says","category-travel","tag-europe","tag-business-success","tag-nanny-state","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1Gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}