{"id":580,"date":"2010-09-09T12:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2010-09-09T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:47:14","slug":"the-superior-virtues-of-twelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/the-superior-virtues-of-twelves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superior Virtues of Twelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; the beauty of the metric system is that if the units you&#8217;re working with start to need dividing, you can simply slide down into the next unit level and viola! You&#8217;re working with whole numbers again. <strong>It&#8217;s a different way of thinking: you&#8217;re not working so much with pieces and parts, but rather with a sort of layered mesh of wholes, through which you can move as needed.<\/strong> Which is fine for distance or weight, but not so good for discreet objects like eggs or minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash; Heather McDougal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cabinet-of-wonders.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/if-we-only-had-twelve-fingers.html\">Cabinet of Wonders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the beauty of the metric system is that if the units you&#8217;re working with start to need dividing, you can simply slide down into the next unit level and viola! You&#8217;re working with whole numbers again. It&#8217;s a different way of thinking: you&#8217;re not working so much with pieces and parts, but rather with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[480,479,478,477],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-nuggets","tag-dirty-dozen","tag-divisible-for-your-convenience","tag-math-of-machines","tag-twelve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->