{"id":183867,"date":"2021-05-24T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=183867"},"modified":"2021-05-05T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:58:15","slug":"pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/05\/pi\/","title":{"rendered":"PI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The admirable number pi:
\nthree point one four one<\/em>.
\nAll the following digits are also initial,
\nfive nine two<\/em> because it never ends.
\nIt can\u2019t be comprehended six five three five<\/em> at a glance,
\neight nine<\/em> by calculation,
\nseven nine<\/em> or imagination,
\nnot even three two three eight<\/em> by wit, that is, by comparison
\nfour six<\/em> to anything else
\ntwo six four three<\/em> in the world.
\nThe longest snake on earth calls it quits at about forty feet.
\nLikewise, snakes of myth and legend, though they may hold out a bit longer.
\nThe pageant of digits comprising the number pi
\ndoesn\u2019t stop at the page\u2019s edge.
\nIt goes on across the table, through the air,
\nover a wall, a leaf, a bird\u2019s nest, clouds, straight into the sky,
\nthrough all the bottomless, bloated heavens.
\nOh how brief \u2014 a mouse tail, a pigtail \u2014 is the tail of a comet!
\nHow feeble the star\u2019s ray, bent by bumping up against space!
\nWhile here we have two three fifteen three hundred nineteen<\/em>
\nmy phone number your shirt size the year
\nnineteen hundred and seventy-three the sixth floor
\nthe number of inhabitants sixty-five cents
\nhip measurement two fingers<\/em> a charade, a code,
\nin which we find hail to thee, blithe spirit, bird thou never wert<\/em>
\nalongside ladies and gentlemen, no cause for alarm<\/em>,
\nas well as heaven and earth shall pass away<\/em>,
\nbut not the number pi, oh no, nothing doing,
\nit keeps right on with its rather remarkable five<\/em>,
\nits uncommonly fine eight<\/em>,
\nits far from final seven<\/em>,
\nnudging, always nudging a sluggish eternity
\nto continue.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Maria Wis\u0142awa Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and <\/em>recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The admirable number pi:
\nthree point one four one.
\nAll the following digits are also initial,
\nfive nine two because it never ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":183868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1077,868],"class_list":["post-183867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-nobel-literature-prize","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}