{"id":71146,"date":"2019-04-24T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71146"},"modified":"2019-04-24T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:47:10","slug":"definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71146","title":{"rendered":"Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Management ordered Building Maintenance to turn down the heat to fight global warming and save the world. Employees complain they are freezing.<br>The maintenance guy uses a fancy electronic thermometer to verify the temperature is 68 degrees, precisely as ordered, therefore people can&#8217;t be cold.\u00a0 He is mixing units.\u00a0 Degrees are a measurement of heat activity, not of comfort. &#8220;68 degrees&#8221; and &#8220;chilly&#8221; are perfectly consistent descriptions of the same office space.<br> Americans have this problem on a broader scale, with politics. We don&#8217;t define what we&#8217;re measuring, so we can&#8217;t explain why we think America was once great and could be again, and why they think it was never great and won&#8217;t be until they replace it with something else.<br>Joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it&#8217;s more a matter of intentionally avoiding defining what we&#8217;re measuring.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management ordered Building Maintenance to turn down the heat to fight global warming and save the world. Employees complain they are freezing.The maintenance guy uses a fancy electronic thermometer to verify the temperature is 68 degrees, precisely as ordered, therefore people can&#8217;t be cold.\u00a0 He is mixing units.\u00a0 Degrees are a measurement of heat activity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71147,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71146\/revisions\/71147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}