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Since it is 03\/03\/09 – it is a square root day – the year is the square of the day\/month: in this case, the square root of 9 is 3, or inversely, the square of 3 is 9 (3\u00c2\u00b2=9).<\/p>\n

Happy Square Root Day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since it is 03\/03\/09 – it is a square root day – the year is the square of the day\/month: in this case, the square root of 9 is 3, or inversely, the square of 3 is 9 (3\u00c2\u00b2=9). Happy Square Root Day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-wG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":787,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/18\/juilliard-to-field-football-team\/","url_meta":{"origin":2026,"position":0},"title":"juilliard to field football team","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, hell is freezing over - in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 Rumor is Curtis is planning on fielding a team for 2009. 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