{"id":50,"date":"2003-05-30T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2003-05-30T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2003-05-30T20:38:38","slug":"the-kilogram-can-do-it-why-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/30\/the-kilogram-can-do-it-why-not-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The kilogram can do it, why not me???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/26061\">Metafilter<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/05\/27\/science\/27KILO.html\">The kilogram is losing weight!<\/a> (NYT link requries registration)<\/p>\n<p>At least, the refence kilogram, defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, has lost 50 micrograms, so scientists are looking for a new way of defining the kilogram, perhaps as a certain number of molecules of an element. They&#8217;re probably afraid they&#8217;ll look fat next to a slimmer, trimmer kilogram at parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Metafilter) The kilogram is losing weight! (NYT link requries registration) At least, the refence kilogram, defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, has lost 50 micrograms, so scientists are looking for a new way of defining the kilogram, perhaps as a certain number of molecules of an element. They&#8217;re probably afraid they&#8217;ll look fat next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}