{"id":290,"date":"2012-10-01T21:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=290"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:55:19","slug":"time-in-the-inca-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/01\/time-in-the-inca-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Time in the Inca Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Incas lacked a distinct measurement for time. \u00a0They based their lives on when there was light, growing seasons, and certain religious celebrations. \u00a0They developed a minimalist calendar which helped predict growing seasons and tally days. \u00a0They were very\u00a0reverent\u00a0to their ancestors, and contemplated the future, so they had conceptions of past, present, and future. \u00a0They also crudely studied the lunar bodies. \u00a0I will compare their conceptions of space and time against other ancient Latin American civilizations such as the Aztecs and Mayans. \u00a0 This intrigues me because so much of my life is dictated by the clock, which they lacked, and the well-defined calendar which they had not fully developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incas lacked a distinct measurement for time. \u00a0They based their lives on when there was light, growing seasons, and certain religious celebrations. \u00a0They developed a minimalist calendar which helped predict growing seasons and tally days. \u00a0They were very\u00a0reverent\u00a0to their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/01\/time-in-the-inca-empire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}