{"id":25393,"date":"2007-08-27T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/08\/27\/is-this-the-normal-way-of-comparing-toilets\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T10:00:01","slug":"is-this-the-normal-way-of-comparing-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070827-01\/?p=25393","title":{"rendered":"Is this the normal way of comparing toilets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Erin Dallin remarked, &#8220;I just installed a new toilet as part of my bathroom remodel. I was told that it is capable of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanstandard.co.id\/producthighlight.php\"> flushing 20 golf balls using only 1.6 gallons of water<\/a>. I&#8217;d love to know how this standard was developed.&#8221;\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanstandard-us.com\/Tools\/BestFlush\/default.aspx?video=1\"> Visit the product Web site<\/a> and click on <i>Flushing system in action<\/i> to watch the video. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.03\/toilet.html\"> read <i>Wired<\/i>&#8216;s coverage of flush technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I also suspect that someday I&#8217;ll finally break down and verify just how many golf balls I can flush.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Erin Dallin remarked, &#8220;I just installed a new toilet as part of my bathroom remodel. I was told that it is capable of flushing 20 golf balls using only 1.6 gallons of water. I&#8217;d love to know how this standard was developed.&#8221; Visit the product Web site and click on Flushing system in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-25393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My colleague Erin Dallin remarked, &#8220;I just installed a new toilet as part of my bathroom remodel. I was told that it is capable of flushing 20 golf balls using only 1.6 gallons of water. I&#8217;d love to know how this standard was developed.&#8221; Visit the product Web site and click on Flushing system in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}