{"id":1566,"event":115,"event_name":"General Twitter 2017","event_date":"2017-01-01","event_state":"N/A","date":"2017-06-01","paraphrased":false,"modified_date":"2018-02-10T16:47:33.076094Z","tags":["roshar"],"lines":[{"speaker":"<a href=\"https://twitter.com/overlordjebus/status/870268395132006400\">Overlord Jebus</a>","text":"<p>Why does Vorinism use imperial instead of metric base ten?</p>"},{"speaker":"<a href=\"https://twitter.com/peterahlstrom/status/870422022047780864\">Peter Ahlstrom</a>","text":"<p>They don't really use imperial. The words don't mean quite the same thing. A foot or mile won't correspond to the exact same measurement.</p>"},{"speaker":"<a href=\"https://twitter.com/Oversleep42/status/882029544009592833\">Oversleep</a>","text":"<p>But still, why don't they use a metric system? They're all about number 10.</p>"},{"speaker":"<a href=\"https://twitter.com/PeterAhlstrom/status/882789014658367488\">Peter Ahlstrom</a>","text":"<p>Who said they don't? The foot has ten inches.</p>"}],"note":""}