{"id":4385,"date":"2020-03-02T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2020-03-02T18:11:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:11:39","slug":"for-reference-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4385","title":{"rendered":"For Reference Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bustednuckles.com\/2020\/03\/01\/for-reference-only\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/03\/reference.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Countries that use the Metric System and try to convert their stuff to Standard measurements run into problems with the residual discrepancies in the conversion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I have to check all my measuring tapes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bustednuckles.com\/2020\/03\/01\/for-reference-only\/\">For Reference Only<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(H\/T: <a href=\"https:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/\">Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>P.S. From the comments at Bayou Renaissance Man:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We talk and worry about all kinds of technological hijinks &#8211; but something as simple as mis-marking measuring tapes could cost another country millions in lost productivity. Partnering with competitors or enemies for ANYTHING is more than a questionable strategy. Lessons learned in the schoolyard still apply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries that use the Metric System and try to convert their stuff to Standard measurements run into problems with the residual discrepancies in the conversion. Now I have to check all my measuring tapes. Source: For Reference Only (H\/T: Bayou Renaissance Man) P.S. From the comments at Bayou Renaissance Man: We talk and worry about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Reference Only<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-standards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}