{"id":1862,"date":"2008-03-14T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2008-03-14T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T18:52:23","slug":"3-14159265-is-approximately-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/14\/3-14159265-is-approximately-1\/","title":{"rendered":"3.14159265 is Approximately 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/talklikeaphysicist.com\/\">Talk like a physicist day<\/a>, Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piday.org\/\">Pi day<\/a>, and Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">birthday<\/a> dear uncle Albert.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo how does one talk like a physicist?  I mean its hard for me to say, because I&#8217;m a physicist (or was, or am, or was molded into who I am by physicists.)  But one can certainly sing like a physicist!  Here is a song from grad school:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schr&ouml;dinger&#8217;s cat, is getting rather fat<br \/>\nHe wants to play, must way for radon decay<br \/>\nWhy is he trapped in that box (clap, clap, clap)<br \/>\nHe would rather be alive than dead<br \/>\nSchr&ouml;dinger&#8217;s kitten, stuck their sittin&#8217;<br \/>\nStuck in a superposition, a quantum mechanical prison<br \/>\nWhy is she trapped in that box (clap, clap, clap)<br \/>\nShe would rather be alive and free<br \/>\nSchr&ouml;dinger&#8217;s feline, gives birth to nine<br \/>\nRadon mutated cats, quantum mechincal lab rats<br \/>\nI opened the box, I opened the box<br \/>\nOut popped&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Talk like a physicist day, Happy Pi day, and Happy birthday dear uncle Albert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}