{"id":285,"date":"2010-08-17T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/17\/the_modern_world_began_in_1919\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T08:07:04","slug":"the_modern_world_began_in_1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"The modern world began in 1919"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"> &#8220;The Modern World began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral in Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe.&#8221;1 The new theory of the universe was Einstein&#8217;s General Relativity, a radical, mysterious, new explanation of gravity, destined to replace the more intuitive and accessible theory of Isaac Newton that had inspired and sustained the Enlightenment.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <em>Paul Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060922834?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chriscurnowco-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060922834\">Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chriscurnowco-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0060922834\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Modern World began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral in Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe.&#8221;1 The new theory of the universe was Einstein&#8217;s General Relativity, a radical, mysterious, new explanation of gravity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-quantum-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}