{"id":437,"date":"2012-05-09T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:14:53","slug":"what-is-with-the-rocket-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2012\/05\/what-is-with-the-rocket-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"What is with the rocket ship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We met a friend for lunch in Toledo. It was extra nice of him to come from Ypsilanti (near Ann Arbor) Michigan since adding an hour and a half to our drive was not a happy thought. <\/p>\n<p>Even though we stopped before our goal of Cleveland yesterday, it was a long day, mostly due to the difficulty of driving in the rain through most of New York (which is a surprisingly large state). Today has to be shorter or my tush will rebel.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, lunch was good, visit was great. It was nice to chat with someone about math and the sadness of innumeracy (our lunch date is a math prof).<\/p>\n<p>Here is some math for you. Match the value in set A with the description in set B.<\/p>\n<p>Set A:<br \/>\n315.6<br \/>\n14.149<br \/>\n52.50<br \/>\n22.3<\/p>\n<p>Set B:<br \/>\nMiles per gallon<br \/>\nGallons put in the car<br \/>\nMiles traveled since last gas<br \/>\nDollars spent on this transaction<\/p>\n<p>Hint:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120509-133038.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120509-133038.jpg\" alt=\"20120509-133038.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met a friend for lunch in Toledo. It was extra nice of him to come from Ypsilanti (near Ann Arbor) Michigan since adding an hour and a half to our drive was not a happy thought. Even though we stopped before our goal of Cleveland yesterday, it was a long day, mostly due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,23,18],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cross-country","tag-gas","tag-mundane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}