{"id":8866,"date":"2025-01-20T00:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:39:59","slug":"47-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/47\/47-3\/","title":{"rendered":"47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recognized the uniqueness of the number 47 in high school. Before long, it became &#8220;my&#8221; number, though many others recognized it, as well. I don&#8217;t call it a lucky number but a significant one. Someone else called it &#8220;the ultimate random number,&#8221; but the point for me is that it hardly seems random &#8212; it&#8217;s ubiquitous in my life. <\/p>\n<p>Now, 47 is associated with the most odious person alive, a spoiled, whiny, over-privileged man-baby who is also extremely dangerous. As he ruins everything he touches, I will NOT allow him to ruin this number, which is far greater than he. He will be forgotten someday. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between the Summer Solstice and the Winter solstice, the sun moves 47 degrees (23 1\/2 degrees North and South of the equator)<\/li>\n<li>People born with Down\u2019s Syndrome have 47 chromosomes instead of the more common 46<\/li>\n<li>Some people believe a flying saucer crash-landed in 1947 in New Mexico, the 47th state (in order of admission)<\/li>\n<li>DVDs have a minimum capacity of 4.7 gigabytes<\/li>\n<li>Our randomly distributed trash receptacle has a serial number ending in \u201c4774\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8868\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?attachment_id=8868\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2025\/01\/chaco-shq-003-747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8868\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">47 degrees at 7:47am<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recognized the uniqueness of the number 47 in high school. Before long, it became &#8220;my&#8221; number, though many others recognized it, as well. I don&#8217;t call it a lucky number but a significant one. Someone else called it &#8220;the ultimate random number,&#8221; but the point for me is that it hardly seems random &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/47\/47-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">47<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}