{"id":19489,"date":"2018-12-03T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=19489"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:47:37","slug":"oldest-operating-astronomical-clock-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/oldest-operating-astronomical-clock-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest operating astronomical clock in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19490\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/177_2653-RAW-prague-astronomical-clock-orloj-praha.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19490\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/177_2653-RAW-prague-astronomical-clock-orloj-praha.jpg\" alt=\"prague astronomical clock orloj praha\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prague Astronomical Clock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First installed in 1410, the clock has had features added over the centuries, and there was a time it wasn&#8217;t operating (1945 until 1948&#8211;thanks Nazis). The last renovation took place after I took this photo in 2017. The renovations on the Old Town Tower (and clock) were completed a few months ago. There is a chance I&#8217;ll get to see it again in summer of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the super cool show that happened at the 600th anniversary in 2010. Don&#8217;t get bored by the first 10 or 20 seconds as it gets better and better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjWJHEmFfPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First installed in 1410, the clock has had features added over the centuries, and there was a time it wasn&#8217;t operating (1945 until 1948&#8211;thanks Nazis). The last renovation took place after I took this photo in 2017. The renovations on the Old Town Tower (and clock) were completed a few months ago. There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[608],"tags":[175,447,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19489"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31996,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions\/31996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}