{"id":392,"date":"2011-03-14T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-03-14T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:34:21","slug":"on-this-date-pi-day-special-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/on-this-date-pi-day-special-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"On this date – Pi Day Special Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this date (March 14), we celebrate a serendipitous concurrence of events: it’s Pi Day<\/b>, and it’s Albert Einstein’s<\/b> 132nd birthday.<\/p>\n

The day of the irrational number, and the hyper-rational theoretical physicist… what could be more perfect?<\/p>\n

We have the constant whose value is the ratio of any Euclidean plane circle’s circumference to its diameter – and that has inspired such blonde-joke-quality humor as “Pi r squared? But everybody knows pie are round!”<\/p>\n

And we have the man whose last name has become synonymous with genius<\/i>, and who gave us such witty jewels as “You don’t truly understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother.”<\/p>\n

A number that cannot be exactly represented in decimal form, and a scientist who understood more than almost anyone about the true nature of the universe, but who couldn’t grasp the concept of a comb… <\/p>\n

Still, maybe Einstein is smart enough to tell me once and for all what the difference is between pie<\/b> and cobbler<\/b>… !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this date (March 14), we celebrate a serendipitous concurrence of events: it’s Pi Day, and it’s Albert Einstein’s 132nd birthday. The day of the irrational number, and the hyper-rational theoretical physicist… what could be more perfect? We have the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,128,314,311,317,138,306,315,84,307,308,304,77,313,312,309,316,310],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikeypedia","tag-albert-einstein","tag-birthday","tag-circle","tag-circumference","tag-cobbler","tag-date","tag-einstein","tag-euclidean","tag-history","tag-numbers","tag-physics","tag-pi","tag-pie","tag-radius","tag-ratio","tag-relativity","tag-theoretical","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}