{"id":11723,"date":"2012-05-25T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11723"},"modified":"2012-05-25T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:00:03","slug":"a-royale-with-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11723","title":{"rendered":"A Royale with Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/life-and-physics\/2012\/may\/19\/cern-particlephysics\">Fed up with imperial<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I gained a niece and a nephew in the last few weeks. They were about the normal size for babies, which is about 8 pounds plus a few shillings. I know this is roughly what babies often weigh. But I do not know why we weigh babies in currency.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nWhat really grates is that I can&#8217;t get some imperial measures out of my head. Like the baby thing. What does an average baby weigh in kilogrammes? (About three and a half, but I had to look it up, even though one of my kids was born in Germany.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US gets a lot of flack for not having gone metric, but it seems that places that have gone metric still haven&#8217;t fully gone metric.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pub is a mile (about 19,296 yards, or three times as many feet) down the road and they are served beer in pints (about 78 and three eighths fluid ounces). It&#8217;s just not fair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure of the reference here.  A mile is 1760 yards on this side of the pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with imperial I gained a niece and a nephew in the last few weeks. They were about the normal size for babies, which is about 8 pounds plus a few shillings. I know this is roughly what babies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11723\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}