{"id":1669,"date":"2010-03-25T07:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:23:27","slug":"metric-commies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/metric-commies.html","title":{"rendered":"Metric Commies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just by chance I encountered this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/archive\/2506\">Murder by Numbers comic<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s particularly funny because at dinner the other night one of my boys asked basically the same thing.\u00a0 Now that we had healthcare, what radical idea was next?\u00a0 The Metric system?<\/p>\n<p>We joked that should legislation be introduced now to move us metric, we&#8217;re pretty sure it would be seen by the Tea Party Fox-publicans as a fascist communist plot to deprive us of our God-given right to measure things as our founding fathers intended\u2014in inches.\u00a0 If the Lord had intended us to use a base 10 system, he&#8217;d have given us 10 fingers or 10 toes, or&#8230; wait&#8230; what were we talking about?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/archive\/2506\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Comic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/hstrips\/0\/2\/5\/0\/02506.png\" alt=\"Comic\" width=\"518\" height=\"622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just by chance I encountered this Murder by Numbers comic.\u00a0 It&#8217;s particularly funny because at dinner the other night one<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/metric-commies.html\" title=\"Read Metric Commies\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justforfun","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}