{"id":1627,"date":"2003-12-07T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-07T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2003-12-07T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2003-12-07T18:26:17","slug":"if-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"If a train&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do so many math story problems have trains leaving Chicago?  Seriously, in some strange alternate universe created and influenced by the writers of math textbooks, there exits a Chicago with no trains left in it&#8230; All of them have departed for other cities at a rate of 60 MPH&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do so many math story problems have trains leaving Chicago? Seriously, in some strange alternate universe created and influenced by the writers of math textbooks, there exits a Chicago with no trains left in it&#8230; All of them have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}