{"id":4706,"date":"2011-12-09T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T07:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2011-12-09T23:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T07:15:06","slug":"the-twelve-days-of-christmath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/the-twelve-days-of-christmath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Days of Christmath!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time for the 12 days of Christmath. Here&#8217;s a warmup. If you get this joke, you&#8217;ll love this video<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nAn infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar. The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;I understand&#8221;, says the bartender &#8211; and pours two pints.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Gauss Christmath Special\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sxnX5_LbBDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/vihart.com\/blog\/gauss\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time for the 12 days of Christmath. Here&#8217;s a warmup. If you get this joke, you&#8217;ll love this video &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar. The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint&#8230; &#8220;I understand&#8221;, says the bartender &#8211; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}