{"id":29481,"date":"2025-10-12T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=29481"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:28:49","slug":"mathematics-and-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/mathematics-and-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics and Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often pop down to my local rugby club <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a pure game played by real men <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used the play on the wing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not that I was anything special <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But because I had a turn of pace <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This said I have of late <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Become obsessed with mathematics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday the posts and x bar were struck twice <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it was harder to hit them at all <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a bleak winters day last season <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both posts and the x bar were struck by a conversion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it was impossible to do such a thing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am beginning to analyse the mathematical possibilities <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ans always carry a pencil and a notebook to each game <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often pop down to my local rugby club It is a pure game played by real men I used the play on the wing Not that I was anything special But because I had a turn of pace This said I have of late Become obsessed with mathematics Yesterday the posts and x bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29484,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions\/29484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}