{"id":1869,"date":"2014-06-18T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2014-06-18T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:21:44","slug":"smiths-first-law-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/smiths-first-law-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiths first law of education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repetition makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repetition makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-u9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1866,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/smiths-law-of-retention\/","url_meta":{"origin":1869,"position":0},"title":"Smith&#8217;s Law of Retention","author":"taxicle","date":"June 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"To every tension there is an equal and opposite retension. 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