{"id":937,"date":"2008-12-31T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/keep-your-eye-on-the-ball.html"},"modified":"2008-12-31T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T13:14:00","slug":"keep-your-eye-on-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/keep-your-eye-on-ball.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Eye on the Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest incarnation of the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timessquarenyc.org\/nye\/nye_ball.html\">Times Square crystal ball<\/a> goes off (or down) tonight.  This version is a 12 foot geodesic sphere, which is apparently twice the size of previous years, and it weighs in at just under 6 tons.  Oh sure, it&#8217;s still covered with Waterford Crystals (some 2,668 of them), but it&#8217;s also sporting LED lights this year that are capable of displaying over 16 million colors.   But don&#8217;t worry, since the ball is only on TV for about a minute, you won&#8217;t see most of them.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timessquarenyc.org\/nye\/nye_ball.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 167px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timessquarenyc.org\/media\/images\/IMG_4998_000.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest incarnation of the famous Times Square crystal ball goes off (or down) tonight. This version is a 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/keep-your-eye-on-ball.html\" title=\"Read Keep Your Eye on the Ball\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}