{"id":18782,"date":"2014-03-14T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=18782"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:12:41","slug":"how-do-you-scare-an-english-major-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2014\/03\/how-do-you-scare-an-english-major-like-this.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Scare An English Major? Like This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_18784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18784\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2014\/03\/1948047_737637899601761_542380823_n.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18784\" title=\"1948047_737637899601761_542380823_n\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2014\/03\/1948047_737637899601761_542380823_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"402\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Just give \u2019em some \u03c0.<\/p>\n<p>But what you see above is the hard way to get \u03c0. What\u2019s the easy way?<\/p>\n<p>You mean you FORGOT?!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prepare to look like a wizard (or Albert Einstein, whose birthday is today) to all of your math unsaavy friends. Simply divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter. It doesn\u2019t matter how big, or how small, the circle is, <a href=\"http:\/\/britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca\/pi\/piorigin\/piorigin.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">your answer will always be \u03c0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18785\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2014\/03\/Albert-Einstein-002.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18785\" title=\"Albert Einstein 002\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2014\/03\/Albert-Einstein-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exactly!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy \u03c0 Day!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just give \u2019em some \u03c0. 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