{"id":23718,"date":"2016-12-30T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23718"},"modified":"2016-12-30T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:48:56","slug":"rooster-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/rooster-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2017 &#8211; Year of the Rooster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/rosster.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not off the hook when you\u00a0greet the new year on January 1, 2017. Celebrating the cycles of the most widely used civil calendar, the Gregorian calendar named after Pope Gregory XIII who introduced it in October 1582, this\u00a0solar (sun) calendar is based on the revolution of the Earth around the sun. It reflects a 0.002% correction in the length of the year from the earlier Julian calendar.<\/p>\n<p>In California, there are many new year festivals based on lunisolar calendars that\u00a0bring the lunar (moon phase) calendar year into synchronization with the solar year. The most prominent of these events are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chinese-new-year.html\">Chinese and Tet New Year festivals<\/a>\u00a0in January\u00a0or\u00a0February. If you attend one you should know that 2017 is the Year of the Rooster. Lucky numbers for &#8220;roosters&#8221; are:\u00a05, 7, and 8.\u00a0Unlucky numbers: 1, 3, and 9.<\/p>\n<h2>You may be a Rooster if you were born&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>January 28, 2017 -February 15, 2018<br \/>\nFebruary 9, 2005-January 28, 2006<br \/>\nJanuary 23, 1993-February 9, 1994<br \/>\nFebruary 5, 1981-January 24, 1982<br \/>\nFebruary 17, 1969-February 5, 1970<br \/>\nJanuary 31, 1957-February 17, 1958<br \/>\nFebruary 13, 1945-February 1, 1946<br \/>\nJanuary 26, 1933-February 13, 1934<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re not off the hook when you\u00a0greet the new year on January 1, 2017. Celebrating the cycles of the most widely used civil calendar, the Gregorian calendar named after Pope Gregory XIII who introduced it in October 1582, this\u00a0solar (sun) calendar is based on the revolution of the Earth around the sun. It reflects a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}