{"id":42,"date":"2005-12-13T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-12-13T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T15:45:00","slug":"christmas-and-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/13\/christmas-and-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Christmas time, so lots of people are waiting in line, and talking about it.  Naturally, this leads to some OR related articles.  Ivars Peterson in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/articles\/20051210\/mathtrek.asp\">Math Trek column<\/a> at Science News talks about parking strategies:  do you park and walk, or cycle through hoping for a better spot (seems the better is generally the better strategy). And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/birminghamnews\/index.ssf?\/base\/living\/113429612840360.xml&#038;coll=2\">Birminham News<\/a> is the latest to talk about Dick Larson&#8217;s work on queue behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Christmas time, so lots of people are waiting in line, and talking about it. Naturally, this leads to some OR related articles. Ivars Peterson in his Math Trek column at Science News talks about parking strategies: do you park and walk, or cycle through hoping for a better spot (seems the better is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/13\/christmas-and-or\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas and OR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}