{"id":138,"date":"2009-05-06T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:02:00","slug":"how-i-learned-to-love-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned To Love Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgIU-aUaM_I\/AAAAAAAABPU\/VMl3l-ytT04\/s1600-h\/sorcery+frames.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332847971209458674\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 216px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgIU-aUaM_I\/AAAAAAAABPU\/VMl3l-ytT04\/s320\/sorcery+frames.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know about you, I struggled with math throughout school.  I, like so many, could never see the necessity of knowing much math.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>I loved sailing and wanted to know everything there was to know about boats. I worked building sails, building boats. I started lofting the designs; drawing them full size, This is the moment where any errors in the initial design appear. We would re-fair the lines. But for me, suddenly there was a reason for math. It all became so clear. I could define the &#8220;lines&#8221; of the boat with a formula. Math had a purpose, and therefore became a useful tool.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgIU-c-oqCI\/AAAAAAAABPM\/CWGDNFbzLXQ\/s1600-h\/courageous+frames+2.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332847971923437602\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 216px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgIU-c-oqCI\/AAAAAAAABPM\/CWGDNFbzLXQ\/s320\/courageous+frames+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgIU-U-dqjI\/AAAAAAAABPE\/BIMCzHxHSTw\/s1600-h\/courageous+loft.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332847969775233586\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 200px; height: 140px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SgIU-U-dqjI\/AAAAAAAABPE\/BIMCzHxHSTw\/s320\/courageous+loft.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, I struggled with math throughout school. I, like so many, could never see the necessity of knowing much math. I loved sailing and wanted to know everything there was to know about boats. I worked building sails, building boats. I started lofting the designs; drawing them full size, This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Learned To Love Math<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[470,2476],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-meter-class","tag-12-meters","tag-minnefords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}