{"id":22,"date":"2007-09-19T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-02-05T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T19:24:58","slug":"why-math-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Why math is important."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was sleeping we seemed to forget how to do math. This guy was quoted a rate of 0.002 <strong>cents<\/strong> per KB to use his Verizon Wireless Data Card while roaming in Canada. When he got the bill they charged him 0.002 <strong>dollars<\/strong>\/KB. His story is <a href=\"http:\/\/verizonmath.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>. What makes it sad is that the verizon customer service people don&#8217;t understand the difference and continue to quote him the lower rate while insisting that the charge on the bill is correct. All of this would be a non-issue if the marketing weasels at Verizon would just fess up to the fact that their price for roaming data is $2.05 \/ MB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was sleeping we seemed to forget how to do math. This guy was quoted a rate of 0.002 cents per KB to use his Verizon Wireless Data Card while roaming in Canada. When he got the bill they charged him 0.002 dollars\/KB. His story is here. What makes it sad is that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why math is important.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}