{"id":25173,"date":"2007-09-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/09\/11\/the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders-a-wrinkle-in-time\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T10:00:01","slug":"the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders-a-wrinkle-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070911-01\/?p=25173","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of seventh graders: A Wrinkle in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/08\/books\/07cnd-lengle.html\"> The recent passing of Madeleine L&#8217;Engle<\/a> reminded me of a quiz seventh grade students were given in order to see whether they were at least paying attention during a reading of a chapter from <i>A Wrinkle in Time<\/i>. I forget the question exactly, but it asked the students about the mechanism that Mrs Who, Which and Whatsit use to travel through the universe. The correct answer was &#8220;The fifth dimension.&#8221;\n One student, who was apparently was paying only part attention during class, wrote &#8220;The third dimension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Let&#8217;s run down the street. &#8220;Woo! I&#8217;m travelling through the third dimension!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent passing of Madeleine L&#8217;Engle reminded me of a quiz seventh grade students were given in order to see whether they were at least paying attention during a reading of a chapter from A Wrinkle in Time. I forget the question exactly, but it asked the students about the mechanism that Mrs Who, Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,109],"class_list":["post-25173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The recent passing of Madeleine L&#8217;Engle reminded me of a quiz seventh grade students were given in order to see whether they were at least paying attention during a reading of a chapter from A Wrinkle in Time. I forget the question exactly, but it asked the students about the mechanism that Mrs Who, Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}