{"id":13914,"date":"2011-08-08T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=13914"},"modified":"2011-08-07T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T19:12:32","slug":"how-much-is-a-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/08\/how-much-is-a-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Is A trillion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A million seconds is 12 days.<br \/>\nA billion seconds is 31 years.<br \/>\n<strong>A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A million minutes ago was &#8211; 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.<br \/>\nA billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>A million hours ago was in 1885.<br \/>\nA billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth.<\/p>\n<p>A million dollars ago was five (5) seconds ago at the U.S. Treasury.<br \/>\nA billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.<br \/>\n[Note: this was pre-Obama]<\/p>\n<p><strong>One trillion seconds ago &#8211; 31,688 years &#8211; Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Million: 1,000,000<br \/>\nBillion: 1,000,000,000<br \/>\n<strong>Trillion: 1,000,000,000,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And we the people of the USA, formerly the richest and most abundantly resourced continent on the face of this planet, owe 14 of them to <\/em><\/strong><strong>the private banking cartels<em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From &#8216;Sirk&#8217; on the Yahoo comments thread.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A million seconds is 12 days.<br \/>\nA billion seconds is 31 years.<br \/>\nA trillion seconds is 31,688 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}