{"id":28277,"date":"2026-03-14T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28277"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:00:57","slug":"the-pi-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28277","title":{"rendered":"The Pi moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Pi Day, all across the world, and many celebrate. Some celebrate with a slice of pie, and others just try to think well-rounded thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there was a moment today that was the actual Pi moment. That moment deserves to be recognized in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>The Pi moment occurred today a little before 2:00 a.m. this morning. Specifically, it occurred about 26 1\/2 seconds after 1:59 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The precise Pi moment happens every year on March 14th at 1:59:26.53589793&#8230; in the wee hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that is just an approximation. I would write down the exact time, but then this blog post would become too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Pi Day, all across the world, and many celebrate. Some celebrate with a slice of pie, and others just try to think well-rounded thoughts. Yet there was a moment today that was the actual Pi moment. That moment deserves to be recognized in its own right. The Pi moment occurred today a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pi moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions\/28278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}