{"id":676,"date":"2010-02-22T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:09:30","slug":"an-impossible-game-of-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"An impossible game of catch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>Tristan and his friend Joe are playing a game of catch. They are fifty feet apart from each other and tossing the ball back and forth at approximately seventy-five feet per second. Two thirds of a second elapse between each of the throws of the ball and the corresponding catch. During that time the ball travels one hundred and sixty seven feet. How is this possible?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ok, so my first attempt at a lateral thinking problem was a bit of a disaster. Konrad and Jason both were not happy with it and I am trying to figure out a way to re-work it so that the problem is not trying to figure out what the heck I am thinking!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Apparently since I want to publish I need to hold off on posting answers here for copy write reasons. So I will post the answers on a separate\u00a0 site and use comments here as a way to discuss the problems.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan and his friend Joe are playing a game of catch. They are fifty feet apart from each other and tossing the ball back and forth at approximately seventy-five feet per second. Two thirds of a second elapse between each of the throws of the ball and the corresponding catch. During that time the ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-notes","category-lateral-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}