{"id":54,"date":"2011-03-15T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-03-15T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:19:00","slug":"pi-today-gone-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Pi Today, Gone Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

After all the excitement of Pi Day (3\/14), I’m not sure a nerd like me can survive. Next to the upcoming glory of Avogadro’s Day (6\/02), nothing else is so exciting. For the non-nerds out there, Pi is a constant fundamental to Euclidean geometry, Avogadro’s number is a constant fundamental to chemistry as we know it. Together, they define what kind of universe we are experiencing.<\/p>\n

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On a more serious note, please keep the people of Japan in your thoughts. They are in the midst of a once in a lifetime disaster. (And beware the spammers and scammers if you donate to the relief efforts.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After all the excitement of Pi Day (3\/14), I’m not sure a nerd like me can survive. Next to the upcoming glory of Avogadro’s Day (6\/02), nothing else is so exciting. For the non-nerds out there, Pi is a constant fundamental to Euclidean geometry, Avogadro’s number is a constant fundamental to chemistry as we know … Continue reading Pi Today, Gone Tomorrow<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}