{"id":15984,"date":"2018-03-14T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2018-03-14T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:53:14","slug":"forks-not-required-pi-day-celebrates-our-favorite-infinite-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/forks-not-required-pi-day-celebrates-our-favorite-infinite-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Forks not required: Pi Day celebrates our favorite infinite number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/icdn4.digitaltrends.com\/image\/pi-day-1200x630-c-ar1.91.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Happy PI Day 3\/14 everybody.<br \/>\nThough it&#8217;s not such a happy one this year, as we&#8217;ve lost one of our finest examples of our imperfect humanity&#8230;Dr. Stephen Hawking.<br \/>\nSomehow it seems as fitting as it is sad, that Einstein&#8217;s birthday&#8230;#PiDay&#8230;should mark #StephenHawking&#8217;s last day on Earth, but while many are captured by the coincidence, I can&#8217;t help but worry for our future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One less genius in a world full of idiots<br \/>\nI&#8217;m wracked with worry for a weary world<br \/>\nOne less answerer to a world full of questions<br \/>\nTick tock, are you on or off the bus?<br \/>\nCan you hear the future sneaking up on us?<br \/>\nIs your brain asleep?<br \/>\nIs the concept too deep?<br \/>\nAre we even paying attention?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#RIPStephenHawking<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Forks not required: Pi Day celebrates our favorite infinite number&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/happy-pi-day-math-lovers\/\">https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/happy-pi-day-math-lovers\/<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy PI Day 3\/14 everybody. Though it&#8217;s not such a happy one this year, as we&#8217;ve lost one of our finest examples of our imperfect humanity&#8230;Dr. Stephen Hawking. Somehow it seems as fitting as it is sad, that Einstein&#8217;s birthday&#8230;#PiDay&#8230;should mark #StephenHawking&#8217;s last day on Earth, but while many are captured by the coincidence, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12476,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/google-doodle-celebrates-planetary-discovery-in-the-most-adorable-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":15984,"position":0},"title":"Google Doodle Celebrates Planetary Discovery In The Most Adorable Way","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Google is celebrating this week\u2019s planetary discovery with a home page doodle that\u2019s out of this world. 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