{"id":214,"date":"2004-09-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/08\/its-helpful-to-know-your-times-tables\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T20:00:00","slug":"its-helpful-to-know-your-times-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/08\/its-helpful-to-know-your-times-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Helpful to Know Your  &#8220;Times Tables.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/weblog\/duh.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"World Famous Asparagus Pee Duh! Award\" \/>In breaking <a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/odd\/article\/id\/425969%7Coddlyenough%7C09-08-2004::08:26%7Creuters.html\">news<\/a>, a study in Exeter, England has confirmed something that I&#8217;ve suspected all along: you can do math problems faster and better if you memorize your times tables.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I did not bring this task to its full fruition, and even though I got a &#8220;C&#8221; or better up through Differential Equations, to this day I get really fuzzy in the 7-8-9 region of the multiplication problem space. Which reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Q: Why was six afraid of seven?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A: Because seven ate nine.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In breaking news, a study in Exeter, England has confirmed something that I&#8217;ve suspected all along: you can do math problems faster and better if you memorize your times tables. Alas, I did not bring this task to its full fruition, and even though I got a &#8220;C&#8221; or better up through Differential Equations, to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/08\/its-helpful-to-know-your-times-tables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Helpful to Know Your  &#8220;Times Tables.&#8221;&#8221;<\/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-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}