{"id":471,"date":"2006-11-26T07:52:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2006-12-31T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T13:07:12","slug":"the-math-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/the-math-parable-471","title":{"rendered":"The math parable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, Jesus said to his disciples: \"The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9.\"<\/p>\n<p>A man who had just joined the disciples looked very confused and asked Peter: \"What, on Earth, does he mean by that?\"<\/p>\n<p>Peter replied: \"Don't worry - it's just another one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/quadratic-equations\/4-graph-quadratic-function.php\">parabolas<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/the-math-parable-471#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}