{"id":1981,"date":"2020-02-29T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2020\/02\/why-a-february-29\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:14:19","slug":"why-a-february-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2020\/02\/why-a-february-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a February 29?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/leapyear.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"932\" data-original-width=\"1400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/leapyear.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\">If the Earth completed its annual 574,395,530-mile (give or take a few hundred feet) annual journey around the sun in precisely 365 days, calendar-making would be so simple.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\">Unfortunately, the trip takes 365.2422 days, thus the calendar would be out of sync by a day about every four years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Earth completed its annual 574,395,530-mile (give or take a few hundred feet) annual journey around the sun in precisely 365 days, calendar-making would be so simple. Unfortunately, the trip takes 365.2422 days, thus the calendar would be out of sync by a day about every four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}