{"id":384,"date":"2008-12-18T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2008-12-18T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:05:55","slug":"swiss-watch-found-in-400-year-old-chinese-tomb-jiangsu-jones-baffled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/swiss-watch-found-in-400-year-old-chinese-tomb-jiangsu-jones-baffled\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Watch Found in 400 Year-old Chinese Tomb, Jiangsu Jones Baffled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, when you find a metal watch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_3122542.html?menu=news.quirkies\">&#8220;Swiss&#8221; engraved on the back<\/a> in an unopened 400 year-old tomb, it is easy to assume time travel. That&#8217;s thinking small, however, either a 400 year-old Swiss guy dropped it recently or&#8230;well&#8230;the tomb hasn&#8217;t been exactly sealed for all the last 400 years.<\/p>\n<p>What do I think? I think the Chinese were making counterfeit watches in the 17th century.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction, though, is that someone lost a watch more recently than 400 years ago. I also predict that we won&#8217;t hear the follow up to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, when you find a metal watch with &#8220;Swiss&#8221; engraved on the back in an unopened 400 year-old tomb, it is easy to assume time travel. That&#8217;s thinking small, however, either a 400 year-old Swiss guy dropped it recently or&#8230;well&#8230;the tomb hasn&#8217;t been exactly sealed for all the last 400 years. What do I think? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-6c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}