{"id":50,"date":"2025-07-07T05:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:15:02","slug":"the-sundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/the-sundial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sundial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sundial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sundial.jpg 640w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sundial-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The big spherical sundial behind the library is pointing the wrong way. It points West instead of North. We are in the middle of a heated controversy about some books inside the library that are believed to be pointing the wrong way, but the sundial bothers me more. I will have plenty to say about the inappropriate book brouhaha soon, in the meantime we need to recognize a perfect metaphor when we see it.The sundial looks very scientific and cool. It certainly must have cost a lot, but it doesn&#8217;t even work. It honestly doesn&#8217;t know what time it is. Libraries have always been trusted to be centers of knowledge and learning, science and wisdom. That&#8217;s exactly the kind of place we deserve and what I want ours to be. We can start by fixing the sundial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Comment-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the middle of a heated controversy&#8230; but the sundial bothers me more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}