{"id":30,"date":"2011-03-26T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyduncan.wordpress.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-04-27T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T21:13:15","slug":"30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/archives\/30","title":{"rendered":"Rule of Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven simple ways to make the world more efficient:<\/p>\n<p>1. Switch all clocks to twenty-four-hour time.<\/p>\n<p>2. Bring about overdue reform to the alphabet. Letters which do not produce a unique sound, such as <em>c, x\u00a0<\/em>and <em>q<\/em> will be fired. A close eye will be kept on <em>j, y<\/em> and <em>z<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Stopputtingspacesbetweenwordswhentyping. Studiesshowthatthisincreasestypingspeedbyfifteenpercent.<\/p>\n<p>4. Change to the metric system. No one knows how many pecks are in a bushel.<\/p>\n<p>5. Cars will be regulated to near-extinction. Each vehicle may only produce a horsepower-to-kilogram ratio which renders the act of driving unexciting. A sedan with a speedometer that can reach 260 km\/h is about as helpful as a speaker that can deafen its listeners or a television that can blind its viewers.<\/p>\n<p>6. Place a moratorium on treadmills pending further investigation into aimless exertion of energy.<\/p>\n<p>7. Ban blogs. They are responsible for countless hours wasted by posting semi-useless information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven simple ways to make the world more efficient: 1. Switch all clocks to twenty-four-hour time. 2. Bring about overdue reform to the alphabet. Letters which do not produce a unique sound, such as c, x\u00a0and q will be fired. A close eye will be kept on j, y and z. 3. Stopputtingspacesbetweenwordswhentyping. Studiesshowthatthisincreasestypingspeedbyfifteenpercent. 4. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[84,154,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}