{"id":3634,"date":"2006-08-18T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T03:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/08\/18\/metrication.html"},"modified":"2006-08-18T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T03:20:56","slug":"metrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/08\/18\/metrication\/","title":{"rendered":"metrication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just learned that the process of going metric is called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metrication\">metrication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, that there's a traditional Chinese unit of time, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ke_%28unit%29\">ke<\/a>, which was traditionally equal to 1\/100 of a day, or approximately 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Also that there are only three remaining nations (according to Wikipedia, anyway) that don't widely use the metric system: the US, Liberia, and Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>And that in some stretches of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interstate_19\">Interstate 19<\/a> in Arizona, \"distances are given in hundreds or thousands of meters, and not miles or even kilometres.\"<\/p>\n<p>While I'm here, I may as well mention that the US Navy (again according to Wikipedia) measures distances in \"kiloyards.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that the process of going metric is called metrication. Also, that there&#8217;s a traditional Chinese unit of time, the ke, which was traditionally equal to 1\/100 of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}