{"id":4750,"date":"2014-11-23T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T09:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2014-11-23T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T09:43:35","slug":"my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/11\/23\/my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clipartpal.com\/_thumbs\/pd\/holiday\/birthday\/birthday_cake_alight_large.png\" alt=\"cake\" width=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">I did not realise this until today, but I share my birthday with John Wallis (23 November 1616 \u2013 28 October 1703). Wallis made contributions to infinitesimal calculus, analytic geometry, algebra and the theory of colliding bodies. He is best known for the infinity symbol \\(\\infty\\).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Wallis was also a code breaker and used his mathematical skills during the Civil war to decode Royalist messages for the Parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wallis\" title=\"Wallis\" target=\"_blank\">John Wallis <\/a> Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not realise this until today, but I share my birthday with John Wallis (23 November 1616 \u2013 28 October 1703). Wallis made contributions to infinitesimal calculus, analytic geometry, algebra and the theory of colliding bodies. He is best known for the infinity symbol \\(\\infty\\). Wallis was also a code breaker and used his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/11\/23\/my-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Birthday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}