{"id":5374,"date":"2011-05-20T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T05:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2014-11-16T20:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:41:52","slug":"friday-math-movie-world-metrology-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-world-metrology-day-2011-5374","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: World Metrology Day 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Metrology Day.<\/p>\n<p>World Metrology Day commemorates the signing of the Convention of the Meter, in Paris, by 17 nations on 20 May 1875. The treaty created the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.<\/p>\n<p>Here's some commemorative fun from Rachel Maddow's <i>Moment of Geek<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/intmstat.com\/scripts\/swfobject.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"flashcontent\">Loading Flash movie...<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar so = new SWFObject(\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\", \"mymovie\", \"460\", \"360\", \"7\", \"#efefef\"); so.addVariable(\"launch\", \"37267168\"); so.addVariable(\"width\", \"460\"); so.addVariable(\"height\", \"360\"); so.write(\"flashcontent\"); \/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>[This is a Flash video from MSNBC. It may not work in your mobile device.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-world-metrology-day-2011-5374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/10\/metrology_th.gif\" alt=\"metrology\" title=\"metrology\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This video commemorates World Metrology Day, 20th May. Go metric and make your lives simpler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}