{"id":267,"date":"2007-02-12T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/bq-redefine-feet-and-inches\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:15:55","slug":"bq-redefine-feet-and-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/bq-redefine-feet-and-inches\/","title":{"rendered":"B&#038;Q redefine Feet and Inches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src='\/blog\/wp-content\/BQunits.jpg' alt='B&amp;Q Sign' \/>In an effort to help its customers with the difference between Metric and Imperial units, B&#038;Q appears to gone a stage further and redefined the Imperial system.<\/p>\n<p>Note that I am not talking about the conversion from metric to imperial, that&#8217;s always going to be approximate. Look at the last two columns.<\/p>\n<p>Surely 1&#8217;11&#8221; is 23&#8243; not 24&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, there are 36&#8243; in 3 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Every single one is wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to help its customers with the difference between Metric and Imperial units, B&#038;Q appears to gone a stage further and redefined the Imperial system. Note that I am not talking about the conversion from metric to imperial, that&#8217;s always going to be approximate. Look at the last two columns. Surely 1&#8217;11&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-innumeracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}