{"id":1608,"date":"2009-06-09T21:52:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2009-06-09T21:52:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:52:30","slug":"the-post-with-all-the-hilarious-footnotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"The post with all the hilarious footnotes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, back in the day I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)\" target=\"_blank\">Speak and Spell<\/a> and a Speak and Math (or whatever the math version of the Speak and Spell was called*). I credit the Speak and Math with my ability to do simple math in my head. (I also credit my mother&#8217;s handy memory tricks such as &#8220;Refrigerator Perry is 9 feet tall and 8 feet wide, ergo 9*8=<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Refrigerator_Perry\" target=\"_blank\">72<\/a>&#8220;**).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway (but I bet you&#8217;ll never forget what 9 times 8 is, will you? Especially if you owned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Bowl_Shuffle\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Super Bowl Shuffle&#8221;<\/a> on vinyl, like I did***)&#8230; what has always bugged me is that if you multiply anything times zero, the answer is zero. How unfair is that? I have 8 apples, you have zero, multiply them, now I have no apples. I want my damn apples! Where did they go? Ugh, it&#8217;s like gambling.<\/p>\n<p>(*Ha ha! I was right, it was called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speak_%26_Math\" target=\"_blank\">Speak and Math!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(** And she had all kinds of tips to teach foreign capitals. I will be 90 years old and senile but will remember that Bogota is the capital of Colombia. Do they even make kids learn South American capitals anymore? Geez, I bet the average 10 year old now wouldn&#8217;t last a minute in the ghetto elementary school I attended from K-5, and NO not because they&#8217;d surely be mugged for their cell phone and iPod).<\/p>\n<p>(*** Yeah, I know. Hated football then, hate football now, but it was the Midwest in the 1980s&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, back in the day I had a Speak and Spell and a Speak and Math (or whatever the math version of the Speak and Spell was called*). I credit the Speak and Math with my ability to do simple math in my head. (I also credit my mother&#8217;s handy memory tricks such as &#8220;Refrigerator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-are-educated","category-indiana","category-lets-get-ready-to-ramble","category-nerds-ahoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}