{"id":10804,"date":"2022-01-25T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2022-01-25T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:21:19","slug":"metrology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10804","title":{"rendered":"Metrology news"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_10818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10818\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/The_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_SB-1.jpeg-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10818\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to a new unit of measurement, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/north-wales-news\/mast-higher-leaning-tower-pisa-22854022\">used yesterday by North Wales Online\/Daily Post<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The particular context for the use of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was the planning application by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwe.com\/en\/the-group\/organisational-structure\/rwe-renewables\">RWE Renewables<\/a> to Denbighshire County Council for a 90-metre-high meteorological mast on land at Mynydd Mynyllod, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llandrillo%2C_Denbighshire\">Llandrillo<\/a>, near Corwen.<\/p>\r\n<p>If planning permission is granted, the purpose of the mast the mast will be to collect wind data for three years to see whether the field is a suitable site for a wind farm.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the height of Pisa&#8217;s famous tower is 55.86 metres from the ground on the low side and 56.67 m on the high side.<\/p>\r\n<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe wonders what its equivalent is in football pitches, sizes of Wales and Stockholms (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8215\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>). \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to a new unit of measurement, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, as used yesterday by North Wales Online\/Daily Post. The particular context for the use of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was the planning application by RWE Renewables to Denbighshire County Council for a 90-metre-high meteorological mast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10824,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions\/10824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}