{"id":14918,"date":"2020-07-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-07-24\/relato-de-una-epidemia-en-cuartos-de-hora.html"},"modified":"2020-07-25T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T09:31:00","slug":"relato-de-una-epidemia-en-cuartos-de-hora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/relato-de-una-epidemia-en-cuartos-de-hora\/","title":{"rendered":"Account of an epidemic in quarters of an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1, 1884, the young doctor Federico Ol\u00f3riz began to obsessively write down everything he did every day in Madrid, absolutely everything, measured in quarters of an hour. With careful English handwriting, he wrote in his diary: \u201cAt the Faculty, examining the brain of a young idiot. Eight quarters of an hour. [\u2026] Prison: examination of two pedophiles. Twelve quarters of an hour. [\u2026] I come back at night and read <i>Torment<\/i>, P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s&#039;s latest novel. \u201cEight quarters of an hour.\u201d On Wednesday, April 2, Ol\u00f3riz notes the death of one of his sons, Ricardito. &quot;Colding little by little and with very painful agony, the poor child resists until eight in the morning, at which time, or a few minutes before, he dies with me present.&quot; That same day, after burying his son, he notes: \u201cTotal work: 26 quarters of an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-07-24\/relato-de-una-epidemia-en-cuartos-de-hora.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctor Federico Ol\u00f3riz narrated in his personal diary the arrival of a plague in Spain in 1884, with a unique measure of time: periods of 15 minutes.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14939,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918\/revisions\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}