{"id":5454,"date":"2026-07-22T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:19:54","slug":"two-cheers-for-the-real-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5454","title":{"rendered":"Two cheers for the real Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s blasphemous for a math teacher to say, I know, but as noted <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4854\">previously<\/a> I think &#8220;Pi Day&#8221; is overrated. That would be the March 14 Pi Day.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the world reads dates with the day in front of the month (22\/7, not 7\/22), and since 22\/7 is actually closer to pi than 3.14 is, it stands to reason if we&#8217;re going to stoop to celebrating that irrational constant it should be today rather than in March.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Real Pi Day, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s blasphemous for a math teacher to say, I know, but as noted previously I think &#8220;Pi Day&#8221; is overrated. That would be the March 14 Pi Day. Most of the world reads dates with the day in front of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5454\">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-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","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=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}