{"id":183350,"date":"2024-02-22T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-mysterious-math-of-billiards-tables"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:24:24","slug":"the-mysterious-math-of-billiards-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-mysterious-math-of-billiards-tables","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Math of Billiards Tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8BqnN72OlqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}