{"id":3672,"date":"2011-06-28T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T08:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2011-06-28T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T09:12:25","slug":"such-a-perfect-day-im-glad-i-spent-it-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"Such a perfect day (I&#8217;m glad I spent it with you)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a great tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/marcusdusautoy\">Marcus du Sautoy<\/a> this morning who declared that today, June 28th, is a perfect day because both 6 and 28 are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perfect_number\">perfect numbers<\/a>.\u00a0 This, combined with the fact that it is very sunny in Manchester right now put me in a great mood and I gave my colleauges a quick maths lesson to try and explain why I was so happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a perfect year though is it?&#8221; declared one of my colleauges.\u00a0 Some people are never happy and she&#8217;s going to have to wait over 6000 years before her definition of a perfect day is fulfilled.\u00a0 The date of this truly perfect day?\u00a0 28th June 8128.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Someone just emailed me to say that 28th June is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinhouston.net\/blog\/?p=1062\">Tau Day<\/a> too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a great tweet from Marcus du Sautoy this morning who declared that today, June 28th, is a perfect day because both 6 and 28 are perfect numbers.\u00a0 This, combined with the fact that it is very sunny in Manchester right now put me in a great mood and I gave my colleauges a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-math","category-just-for-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-Xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}