{"id":1029,"date":"2011-03-14T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:19:35","slug":"happy-pi-day-2011-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/happy-pi-day-2011-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Pi Day 2011, Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8211; our favorite holiday for the past decade. Pi Day. A reminder of the math geeks that have brought wisdom and light on our planet for centuries past.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on who you ask, they all have different terms for Pi. Transcendental, irrational, easy, hard&#8230; but we prefer the term &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/celebrating-pi-day\/\" rel=\"follow\">magical<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nst\/5237671602\/\" rel=\"follow\"><img class=\"colorbox-1029\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5237671602_3abf3229b8_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(If only that pie tasted as wonderful as it looks! Alas, it was good, but not <em>that<\/em> good!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Pi Day 2011!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go out, have some fun, bake a pie, read a math journal, write some geeky code, and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=1878735\" rel=\"follow\">tell<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/76377\/Two-mathematicians-walk-into-a-bar\" rel=\"follow\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mathoverflow.net\/questions\/1083\/do-good-math-jokes-exist\" rel=\"follow\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinemathlearning.com\/math-jokes-calculus.html\" rel=\"follow\">jokes<\/a>. This is the one day each year you&#8217;re allowed to let your inner geek show and not worry about being too geeky. On Pi Day, it&#8217;s cool to be nerdy!<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow NeoSmart Technologies on twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neosmart\" rel=\"follow\">@neosmart<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NeoSmart\" rel=\"follow\">on Facebook<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8211; our favorite holiday for the past decade. Pi Day. A reminder of the math geeks that have brought wisdom and light on our planet for centuries past. Depending on who you ask, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/happy-pi-day-2011-everyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[781,780,619,617,782],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-celebration","tag-holiday","tag-math","tag-pi","tag-pie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-gB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}