{"id":485,"date":"2014-10-23T11:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=485"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:11:55","slug":"new-data-shows-it-will-take-398879561-years-to-pay-off-the-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"New data shows it will take 398,879,561 years to pay off the debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovereignman.com\/trends\/new-data-shows-it-will-take-398879561-years-to-pay-off-the-debt-15309\/\">New data shows it will take 398,879,561 years to pay off the debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">The US government\u2019s debt is getting close to reaching another round number\u2014$18 trillion. It currently stands at more than $17.9 trillion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">But what does that really mean? It\u2019s such an abstract number that it\u2019s hard to imagine it. Can you genuinely understand it beyond just being a ridiculously large number?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Just like humans find it really hard to comprehend the vastness of the universe. We know it\u2019s huge, but what does that mean? It\u2019s so many times greater than anything we know or have experienced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel managed to successfully measure the distance from Earth to a star other than our sun in the 19<sup style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">th<\/sup>\u00a0century. But he realized that his measurements meant nothing to people as they were. They were too abstract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data shows it will take 398,879,561 years to pay off the debt. The US government\u2019s debt is getting close to reaching another round number\u2014$18 trillion. It currently stands at more than $17.9 trillion. But what does that really mean? It\u2019s such an abstract number that it\u2019s hard to imagine it. Can you genuinely understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,195,814,843],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-abstract-number","tag-debt","tag-trillion","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}