{"id":168,"date":"2015-03-13T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2015-03-13T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:37:12","slug":"the-cost-of-innumeracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The cost of innumeracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/3267cd38925e46828ddb0b623fad9ead\/groom-fails-math-test-indian-bride-walks-out-wedding\" target=\"_blank\">inability to add<\/a> cost an Indian man his wedding day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#9BF1F2\">An Indian bride walked out of her wedding ceremony<\/span> after the groom failed to solve a simple math problem, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The bride tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked out.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#9BF1F2\">The question she asked: How much is 15 plus six?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His reply: <span style=\"background-color:#9BF1F2\">17<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inability to add cost an Indian man his wedding day. An Indian bride walked out of her wedding ceremony after the groom failed to solve a simple math problem, police said Friday. The bride tested the groom on his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}