{"id":66,"date":"2008-03-22T23:46:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T07:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:48:58","slug":"exclamation-marks-were-a-poor-notational-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Exclamation Marks Were a Poor Notational Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So to-day we learned that when I am <em>very tired<\/em> I might leave <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a> a long rambling message about problems of combinatorial mathematics.<\/p> <p>Combinatorial mathematics is, on the whole, extremely useful; but it is <em>deathly<\/em> dull.  And, while its usefulness obtains <em>on the whole<\/em>, some problems \u2014 such as that about which I left my message \u2014 are <em>utterly unimportant<\/em>.<\/p> <p>In other words, I rambled about boring, useless math.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So to-day we learned that when I am very tired I might leave the Woman of Interest a long rambling message about problems of combinatorial mathematics. Combinatorial mathematics is, on the whole, extremely useful; but it is deathly dull. And, while its usefulness obtains on the whole, some problems \u2014 such as that about which [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[97,103,98,99],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-personal","category-public","tag-combinatorics","tag-ennui","tag-fatigue","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}