{"id":146,"date":"2005-10-14T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T06:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2006-11-02T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T12:37:22","slug":"society-lubricants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/society-lubricants-146","title":{"rendered":"Society lubricants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my mathematics website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/\">Interactive Mathematics<\/a>, I have a \"Comments or Questions?\" feature on every page.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the questions are, well, difficult to answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>how to work out mathematics?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Others are much clearer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is the degree of differential equation?<br \/>\nIs differential equation has unique degree or not?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But most, like the one above, are totally devoid of \"please\". This is a free service, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Some questions take quite a while to answer. It is very rare to get a thank you in reply. Lately I have been adding the following to my answer mails. Is it too cryptic, do you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"Manners are the lubricant of society...\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/society-lubricants-146#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my mathematics website, Interactive Mathematics, I have a \"Comments or Questions?\" feature on every page. Some of the questions are, well, difficult to answer: how to work out mathematics? Others are much clearer: What is the degree of differential equation? Is differential equation has unique degree or not? But most, like the one above, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}