{"id":531,"date":"2011-03-15T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/03\/happy-pi-day.html"},"modified":"2011-03-15T04:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:29:00","slug":"happy-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/03\/happy-pi-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Pi Day!*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>*I meant to post this earlier in the day, but some online training took up my evening, so I realize it&#8217;s no longer Pi Day on the east coast now&#8230;sorry!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piday.org\/\">Happy Pi Day everyone!<\/a><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmom.com\/2011\/03\/celebrate-pi-day-with-a-pi-shirt\/dave_pi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20078\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20078\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dave_Pi-475x633.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Dave let me take this great pic of him over the weekend, sporting his favorite t-shirt!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piday.org\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmom.com\/2011\/03\/celebrate-pi-day-with-a-pi-shirt\/img_6870\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20006\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20006 \" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_6870-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A closeup shows the digits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Dave asked for the shirt after seeing an episode of the CBS drama&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numb3rs\">Numb3rs.<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/images\/action\/large\/2113151.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/images\/action\/large\/2113151.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He received it for Father&#8217;s Day in 2006 while he was working on his <a href=\"http:\/\/gradworks.umi.com\/33\/29\/3329356.html\">PhD<\/a>, and he wore it at least weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Note the close up detail. &nbsp;Pardon my poor focus, it was hard to zoom in on the detail without the camera flash:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmom.com\/2011\/03\/celebrate-pi-day-with-a-pi-shirt\/img_6873\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20007\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20007\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_6873-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After we moved to Offutt AFB in Nebraska in 2008, the shirt was worn much less: Dave had to go back to wearing his uniforms daily. &nbsp;He still breaks out the shirt occasionally, and he&#8217;ll definitely wear it after work on Pi Day!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Want your own Pi Shirt? &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/unisex\/sciencemath\/6e7e\/\">Order one from ThinkGeek.com<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*I meant to post this earlier in the day, but some online training took up my evening, so I realize it&#8217;s no longer Pi Day on the east coast now&#8230;sorry! Happy Pi Day everyone! Dave let me take this great pic of him over the weekend, sporting his favorite t-shirt! A closeup shows the digits. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[20,83,54],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-8z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1959,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/03\/florida-discoveries-40-the-mcguires-st-patricks-day-run.html","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":0},"title":"Florida Discoveries 40: The McGuire&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Run","date":"26 March 13","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple weeks ago we took part in another Florida Panhandle tradition: the McGuire's St. Patrick's Day 5K Prediction Run on March 9th. 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