{"id":1352,"date":"2026-03-07T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:26:20","slug":"hey-but-when-was-this-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2026\/hey-but-when-was-this-written\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, but when was this written?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This site uses the Holocene calendar which was proposed in 1993 CE as a way to better visualize our context within humanity&#8217;s story. In fact, in that last sentence, the year should have read 11993 HE. Jesus of Nazareth was born around 10000 HE, and everything earlier than that is no longer recorded in the &#8220;BC&#8221; or &#8220;BCE&#8221; format which has weird negative numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply, every year on this site, at least from now on, will attempt to use the Holocene Era as its numbering system, which means to add 10,000 to the number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great visualization of the Holocene: <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelzrork.github.io\/Holocene_Calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/michaelzrork.github.io\/Holocene_Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kurzgesagt in a nutshell explanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/czgOWmtGVGs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/czgOWmtGVGs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have thoughts about the Holocene? Does it offend you as a young Earth proponent? Does it help you think about the context of now compared with our forebears? Let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site uses the Holocene calendar which was proposed in 1993 CE as a way to better visualize our context within humanity&#8217;s story. In fact, in that last sentence, the year should have read 11993 HE. Jesus of Nazareth was born around 10000 HE, and everything earlier than that is no longer recorded in the &#8220;BC&#8221; or &#8220;BCE&#8221; format which has weird negative numbers. Simply, every year on this site, at least from now on, will attempt to use the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2026\/hey-but-when-was-this-written\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,46,239,199,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-science","category-society","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}