{"id":3163,"date":"2007-11-20T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2007-11-20T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:00:08","slug":"your-age-by-dinner-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/your-age-by-dinner-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Your age by dinner math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got this from an e-mail&#8230; it&#8217;s a cool trick, but it&#8217;s basically just a simple math problem.<\/p>\n<p>It takes less than a minute.<br \/>\nWork this out as you read.<br \/>\nBe sure you don&#8217;t read the bottom until you&#8217;ve worked it out.<br \/>\nThis is not one of those waste of time things, it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<p>1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to<br \/>\ngo out to eat. (More than once but less than 10) <em>or you can just pick any number between 1 and 9<\/em><br \/>\n2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold). <em>or to make the problem work \ud83d\ude09<\/em><br \/>\n3. Add 5.<br \/>\n4. Multiply it by 50.<br \/>\n5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757. If you haven&#8217;t, add 1756.<br \/>\n6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.<\/p>\n<p>You should have a three digit number.<br \/>\nThe first digit of this was your original number (How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week <em>(or the random number you picked<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>The next two numbers are:<br \/>\nYOUR AGE (oh yes, it is!).<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got this from an e-mail&#8230; it&#8217;s a cool trick, but it&#8217;s basically just a simple math problem. It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read. Be sure you don&#8217;t read the bottom until you&#8217;ve worked it out. This is not one of those waste of time things, it&#8217;s fun. 1. First &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/your-age-by-dinner-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your age by dinner math<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[401,133,404,403,402],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-misc","tag-age","tag-dinner","tag-e-mail","tag-math","tag-restaurants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-P1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}