{"id":8412,"date":"2018-03-06T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T09:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2019-03-13T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:57:42","slug":"graeme-forbes-on-the-10000-year-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/06\/graeme-forbes-on-the-10000-year-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Graeme Forbes on the 10,000 year clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/forbes.html\">Dr Graeme Forbes<\/a>, Lecturer in the\u00a0Department of Philosophy, has <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-a-10-000-year-clock-is-being-built-under-a-mountain-and-why-10-000-years-is-too-long-92383\">contributed an article to\u00a0<em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, explaining why a 10,000 year clock is being built under a mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Graeme\u2019s article not only gives the background as to why the clock will have a year hand, a century hand, and a cuckoo that comes out every 1,000 years, but also argues why 10,000 years is too long.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is my worry with \u201clong-term thinking\u201d,\u2019 explains Graeme in the article, \u2018such thinking risks removing us from the contexts (our life plan, our society, our civilisation) in which things matter to us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The piece has already generated wider interest, being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/why-10-000-clock-being-105657192.html\">republished on Yahoo News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Graeme Forbes, Lecturer in the\u00a0Department of Philosophy, has contributed an article to\u00a0The Conversation, explaining why a 10,000 year clock is being built under a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/06\/graeme-forbes-on-the-10000-year-clock\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":10090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135866,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10010,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions\/10010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}