{"id":2821,"date":"2009-01-02T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/02\/a-bit-of-random-curiosity\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T12:31:00","slug":"a-bit-of-random-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/02\/a-bit-of-random-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"a bit of random curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I only noticed recently about Canada, in that way where one realizes things about home only when one is away, is that we&#8217;re <i>incredibly<\/i> soft with our Metric System. Our highway signs are in kilometers, but we typically measure height in feet and inches and weight in pounds. Though I was raised with only metric in my textbooks, my units of measurement are as follow: millimeter, centimeter, inch, foot, meter, yard, kilometer, mile.<\/p>\n<p>Is this just a Canadian thing? <\/p>\n<p><lj-poll-1324330><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I only noticed recently about Canada, in that way where one realizes things about home only when one is away, is that we&#8217;re incredibly soft with our Metric System. Our highway signs are in kilometers, but we typically measure height in feet and inches and weight in pounds. Though I was raised with only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/02\/a-bit-of-random-curiosity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a bit of random curiosity&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[1026,896],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadiana","tag-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}