{"id":775,"date":"2009-03-03T21:25:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/03\/03\/square-root-day\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T21:25:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:25:27","slug":"square-root-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/03\/square-root-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Root Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch flight 1549 <a href=\"http:\/\/theologica.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/hudson-river-landing.html\">land in the Hudson<\/a>.&#160; Animation with audio from flight control. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pomegranatephone.com\/\">The Pomegranate<\/a> is a phone that can do it all. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/training-practice.htm\">Everything is possible, with practice<\/a>.&#160; A nice 3-minute compilation.&#160; I really like the wave.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Luke&#8217;s 11th birthday.&#160; It is also &#8220;Square Root Day.&#8221;&#160; From <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB123610420858420725.html\">BOTWT<\/a>: 3\/3\/09, 3 x 3 = 9, get it? Math nerds all over are celebrating the holiday by making bad puns: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Celebrations are as varied: Some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol. <\/p>\n<p>The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch flight 1549 land in the Hudson.&#160; Animation with audio from flight control. The Pomegranate is a phone that can do it all. Everything is possible, with practice.&#160; A nice 3-minute compilation.&#160; I really like the wave. Today is Luke&#8217;s 11th birthday.&#160; It is also &#8220;Square Root Day.&#8221;&#160; From BOTWT: 3\/3\/09, 3 x 3 =\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/03\/square-root-day\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}