{"id":5900,"date":"2013-01-09T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2013-01-10T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:16:52","slug":"a-head-for-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/09\/a-head-for-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Head for Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href='http:\/\/queserasera.org\/archives\/001412.html'>Que Sera Sera<\/a>, Sarah Brown has a <a href='http:\/\/queserasera.org\/archives\/001412.html'>post<\/a> about the misconceptions that people (including myself) had as children. Be sure to read through the comments, which include such gems as, &#8220;My husband believed (still believes?) that limes are unripened lemons&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Also in the comments are a few instances of readers coming to shocking realizations, such as the woman who discovers that her long-held belief that Alaska is an island (because of its placement on US maps) is erroneous. <\/p>\n<p>That reminded me of an incident in my late 20s. I had lived in Washington State nearly all of my life, and driven its roads innumerable times. One afternoon I was driving home from the airport, having picked up a friend who was making her first visit to the state. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love your State Highway signs,&#8221; my friend remarked as we passed one. I thought this was an odd thing to find charming, and asked her to clarify. &#8220;I like how the number is printed on a silhouette of George Washington,&#8221; she replied.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what she was talking about. It wasn&#8217;t until we approached another of the black and white signs that I could validate her observation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You never knew that?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;What did you think the white thing was?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I shrugged. &#8220;It&#8217;s always been the State Highway Background Shape to me.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='\/images\/WAinterstate.jpg'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Que Sera Sera, Sarah Brown has a post about the misconceptions that people (including myself) had as children. Be sure to read through the comments, which include such gems as, &#8220;My husband believed (still believes?) that limes are unripened lemons&#8221;. Also in the comments are a few instances of readers coming to shocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}