{"id":4473,"date":"2020-02-05T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:37:04","slug":"february-is-a-leap-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/?p=4473","title":{"rendered":"February is a leap year&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/what-we-do\/health-promotion-services\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4474 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Image-to-promote-feb-newsletter-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Image-to-promote-feb-newsletter-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Image-to-promote-feb-newsletter.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>February is a leap year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 in February.<\/p>\n<p>We have a leap year every four years because the Earth does not revolve around the sun in an even number of days.\u00a0 The Earth needs 365.25 days to go around the sun. That extra quarter, or one-fourth, day, added up four times, means that we need to add a day to the yearly calendar every four years<\/p>\n<p>Click onto <a href=\"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/what-we-do\/health-promotion-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February Newsletter<\/a> to find out more about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Echo, Echo, read all about us\u2026.<\/li>\n<li>LGBT History Month<\/li>\n<li>Fundraising<\/li>\n<li>News from NAM<\/li>\n<li>Students at Sahir House<\/li>\n<li>Ernie Tiddles and his tails<\/li>\n<li>HIV news in the UK<\/li>\n<li>Volunteering at Sahir House<\/li>\n<li>Campaigns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.11&#8243;] February is a leap year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 in February. We have a leap year every four years because the Earth does not revolve around the sun in an even number of days.\u00a0 The Earth needs 365.25 days to go around the sun. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}