{"id":3688,"date":"2015-10-15T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2015-10-15T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:24:56","slug":"mad-scientist-1-previously-baby-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Mad Scientist #1 previously Baby Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Ro is now 7 it&#8217;s about time to rename this column to something more appropriate than &#8220;BabyLogic&#8221;. He&#8217;s surprised me with his joy for math and logic and I enjoy his explorations of his curious mind.<\/p>\n<p>We do chain math a lot, something like:<\/p>\n<p>1+7 +3+4-3+6+8+9+2=?<\/p>\n<p>We take turns in constructing the riddle and he takes great joy to torture me.<\/p>\n<p>One good day he wanted to make it particularly hard for me so he did:<\/p>\n<p>1+17+17-17-17+13-13+71-71=?<\/p>\n<p>And since he knew that he would subtract the same number in the next move he didn&#8217;t have to actually do the difficult math himself. He was very proud when he came up with this system!<\/p>\n<p>I was stunned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Ro is now 7 it&#8217;s about time to rename this column to something more appropriate than &#8220;BabyLogic&#8221;. He&#8217;s surprised me with his joy for math and logic and I enjoy his explorations of his curious mind. We do chain math a lot, something like: 1+7 +3+4-3+6+8+9+2=? We take turns in constructing the riddle and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=3688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mad Scientist #1 previously Baby Logic<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}