{"id":3956,"date":"2026-04-07T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:21:17","slug":"metric-system-was-born-in-1795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"Metric System Was Born in 1795"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Metric system was born when France adopted the system in 1795<\/strong>. Gabriel Mounton, a French vicar, proposed the system in 1670. The Convention of the Metre in 1875 standardized most measurements. Today the United States is one of only a few countries that do not use the metric system. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/measure\/metric-system-introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metric System<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metric system was born when France adopted the system in 1795. Gabriel Mounton, a French vicar, proposed the system in 1670. The Convention of the Metre in 1875 standardized most measurements. Today the United States is one of only a few countries that do not use the metric system. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Metric System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5460,5459,2430,408,2429,2428],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5460","tag-april-7","tag-convention-of-the-metre","tag-france","tag-gabriel-mounton","tag-metric-system","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22197,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions\/22197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}