{"id":4854,"date":"2025-03-14T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2025-03-14T05:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:02:16","slug":"pie-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"Pi(e) Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/episodes\/16717983\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> Franklin and I discuss the most overrated day of the math year: Pi Day.<\/p>\n<p>Actually we spend much of the day talking about\u00a0<em>pie<\/em>, not the Greek letter or mathematical constant, and that&#8217;s much more our speed.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Orlin has expressed perfectly my thoughts about Pi Day (sort of a rebuttal), and at the risk of violating some copyright law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/pi-day-july-22\/\">here<\/a>&#8216;s what Ben had to say.<\/p>\n<p>I do still love pie though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on\u00a0Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss the most overrated day of the math year: Pi Day. Actually we spend much of the day talking about\u00a0pie, not the Greek letter or mathematical constant, and that&#8217;s much more our speed. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}