{"id":106,"date":"2025-05-20T03:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:24:03","slug":"where-did-the-measurement-knots-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/where-did-the-measurement-knots-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did the Measurement knots come from ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Sailors Used ROPE to Measure Speed at Sea? #shorts\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEyaYJt9TrA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The measurement &#8220;knot&#8221; originates from\u00a0<mark>a method sailors used to measure ship speed in the 17th century<\/mark>.\u00a0They used a rope with knots tied at regular intervals, called a\u00a0&#8220;chip log,&#8221; which was thrown overboard and the number of knots that passed by in a set time period indicated the ship&#8217;s speed.\u00a0One knot is now defined as one\u00a0nautical mile\u00a0per hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The measurement &#8220;knot&#8221; originates from\u00a0a method sailors used to measure ship speed in the 17th century.\u00a0They used a rope with knots tied at regular intervals, called a\u00a0&#8220;chip log,&#8221; which was thrown overboard and the number of knots that passed by in a set time period indicated the ship&#8217;s speed.\u00a0One knot is now defined as one\u00a0nautical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seacaptaindate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}