{"id":84198,"date":"2018-10-30T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-bitter-class-struggle-behind-our-definition-of-a-kilogram"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:19:21","slug":"the-bitter-class-struggle-behind-our-definition-of-a-kilogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-bitter-class-struggle-behind-our-definition-of-a-kilogram","title":{"rendered":"The Bitter Class Struggle Behind Our Definition of a Kilogram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-bitter-class-struggle-behind-our-definition-of-a-kilogram.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before standardization, units of measurement were often manipulated by tyrants to cheat peasants and steal land.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/10\/standard-units-kilogram-tyranny\/574276\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/10\/standard...ny\/574276\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before standardization, units of measurement were often manipulated by tyrants to cheat peasants and steal land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84333,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84198\/revisions\/84333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}