{"id":13269,"date":"2021-04-30T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T20:32:03","slug":"acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13269","title":{"rendered":"Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow or other, something I read today triggered my memory of the rate of acceleration due to gravity, 32.174-feet\/sec<sup>2<\/sup>.  BOOM &#8212; and there it was in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what is interesting about that instant recall: the only times in my life that I ever actually used that number was on college physics exams.  Not once &#8212; <i>not even once<\/i> &#8212; was I obliged to summon that number from memory in more than 25-years was a working engineer.  I don&#8217;t know what fascinates me most: the way the mind works, or the strange training of an engineering education.<\/p>\n<p>Just thought I&#8217;d share.  That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow or other, something I read today triggered my memory of the rate of acceleration due to gravity, 32.174-feet\/sec2. BOOM &#8212; and there it was in my head. Here is what is interesting about that instant recall: the only times &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}