{"id":228,"date":"2016-12-27T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=228"},"modified":"2016-12-27T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:00:44","slug":"david-lettermans-top-11-excuses-for-not-having-your-math-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman&#8217;s Top 11 Excuses for Not Having Your Math Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algebra<\/p>\n<p>1. I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>2. I couldn&#8217;t establish a connection with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homework.com\/\"> www.homework.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. It was cloudy all day and my calculator is solar powered.<\/p>\n<p>4. I had a virus and my computer caught one too.<\/p>\n<p>5. My compass only reads North, South, East and West so I couldn&#8217;t\u00a0 finish my geometry.<\/p>\n<p>6. I was watching the World Series and couldn&#8217;t determine whether it converged or not<\/p>\n<p>7. I dug all around the yard but never found the square roots I needed.<\/p>\n<p>8. I ate too much pi and went to bed with transcendental indigestion.<\/p>\n<p>9. I couldn&#8217;t decide whether i is the square root of negative one or I am the square root of negative one.<\/p>\n<p>10. I was exhausted from moving countless decimal point and raising complicated algebraic expressions to large powers.<\/p>\n<p>11. My friends and I took the evening off to celebrate the solution of Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algebra 1. I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames. 2. I couldn&#8217;t establish a connection with www.homework.com 3. It was cloudy all day and my calculator is solar powered. 4. I had a virus and my computer caught one too. 5. My compass only reads North, South, East and West so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Letterman&#8217;s Top 11 Excuses for Not Having Your Math Homework<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}