{"id":115,"date":"2005-11-14T19:53:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/?p=115"},"modified":"2005-11-14T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T02:00:36","slug":"on-a-happier-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"On a happier note."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a happier note, this just in from the department of homeland security.  Not really though but it&#8217;s pretty funny.  As you should be able to tell it&#8217;s a little old.  So sue me, actually don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><em>At Phoenix Sky Harbor<\/em> airport today, an individual later discovered to<br \/>\nbe a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while<br \/>\nin possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and<br \/>\na calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General John<br \/>\nAshcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious<br \/>\nal-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying<br \/>\nweapons of math instruction.<\/p>\n<p> Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,&#8221; Ashcroft said. &#8220;They desire average<br \/>\nsolutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a<br \/>\nsearch of absolute value They use secret code names like &#8216;x&#8217; and &#8216;y&#8217;<br \/>\nand refer to themselves as &#8216;unknowns&#8217;, but we have determined they<br \/>\nbelong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with<br \/>\ncoordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used<br \/>\n to say, &#8220;there are 3 sides to every triangle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, &#8220;If God had<br \/>\nwanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have<br \/>\ngiven us more fingers and toes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a happier note, this just in from the department of homeland security. Not really though but it&#8217;s pretty funny. As you should be able to tell it&#8217;s a little old. So sue me, actually don&#8217;t. At Phoenix Sky Harbor airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/?p=115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On a happier note.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}