{"id":94,"date":"2007-11-13T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:46:14","slug":"multiplication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Multiplication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Background information: I organize a <a href=\"www.stringpage.com\/fff\/fff5.html\">fiber arts symposium<\/a> each year, either one or two weekends before US Thanksgiving. <\/p>\n<p>Person A is flying out this year to teach, and then to spend Thanksgiving with me (Hi person A!).<\/p>\n<p>Person B and her family have a standing invitation to stay with me (3 adults, 1 child).<\/p>\n<p>Total of invited guests: 4 adults, 1 child.<\/p>\n<p>One of B&#8217;s party asks if C can stay too. No problem, I reply.<\/p>\n<p>Later, C decides to carpool with D. D can also stay at my house, especially since I have no way to transport C to and from the symposium. D might bring her husband. Sure, whatever. It&#8217;s a big house.<\/p>\n<p>C then decides to bring along E and E&#8217;s infant. Well, as long as they aren&#8217;t bothered by large dogs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Person B and family try to back out and stay elsewhere. Hey! No fair, I want to see you guys! They do decide to leave their dog at home, probably a wise decision.<\/p>\n<p>D is bringing both husband and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Total of expected guests: 9 adults, 2 children.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, we have a big house, in part for just such occasions. With three bathrooms and everything! We&#8217;ll all fit, as long as someone sleeps on the couch. I think. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background information: I organize a fiber arts symposium each year, either one or two weekends before US Thanksgiving. Person A is flying out this year to teach, and then to spend Thanksgiving with me (Hi person A!). Person B and her family have a standing invitation to stay with me (3 adults, 1 child). Total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}