{"id":2101,"date":"2010-02-18T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2010-02-18T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:20:15","slug":"myanmarburma-and-the-us-against-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/myanmarburma-and-the-us-against-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\/Burma and the US against the rest of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chartsbin\/4360146378\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/4360146378_3ea808bc57_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chartsbin\/4360146378\/\">International Measuring System of Units by Country<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/chartsbin\/\">ChartsBin<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to this map (click on it for more information), there are now only two countries in the world that haven&#8217;t adopted the metric system: Myanmar\/Burma and the US.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit strange to see that the UK has been allowed the colour blue &ndash; perhaps they should have assigned a different colour to countries that have changed over officially, but where people still use different units in practice.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish there was a way to make the US go metric, too &ndash; so long as the largest English-speaking country is using imperial measures, it will be really hard for the UK to let go completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Measuring System of Units by Country Originally uploaded by ChartsBin According to this map (click on it for more information), there are now only two countries in the world that haven&#8217;t adopted the metric system: Myanmar\/Burma and the US. It&#8217;s a bit strange to see that the UK has been allowed the colour blue &ndash; perhaps they should have assigned a different colour to countries that have changed over officially, but where people still use different units in practice. I just wish there was a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}