{"id":5828,"date":"2021-01-09T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2021-01-09T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:22:09","slug":"greek-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2021\/01\/09\/greek-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bell had just rung. The students were settling in. Sixth period is always a little rowdy at the beginning, and this day was no exception. Suddenly one of the students was shouting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Hasan! What are these letters?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The others looked over. He was holding the class notes up with both hands.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re &#8230; <em>curly<\/em>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ah yes,&rdquo; I said.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, they met <em>alpha<\/em>, <em>beta,<\/em> and <em>gamma<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2021\/01\/i-nV2H7gR\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0.1mm solid silver;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2021\/01\/i-nV2H7gR\/0\/cb5caa62\/S\/alpha-beta-gamma-S.jpg\" alt=\"alpha, beta, gamma in a math expression\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bell had just rung. The students were settling in. Sixth period is always a little rowdy at the beginning, and this day was no exception. Suddenly one of the students was shouting. &ldquo;Mr. Hasan! What are these letters?&#8221; The others looked over. He was holding the class notes up with both hands. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}