{"id":4730,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4730"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-brick-in-the-lake-sort-of-for-mairi-bheag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-brick-in-the-lake-sort-of-for-mairi-bheag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brick in the Lake -sort of for Mairi bheag-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Brick in the Lake (sort of for Mairi bheag)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 28, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA man held a brick as he sat in a boat<br \/>\nThen threw it away and the brick didn&#8217;t float<br \/>\nThe man then considered and rubbed at his eyes<br \/>\nThe level of water did it sink or rise?<\/p>\n<p>His friend in the boat (he was there all along)<br \/>\nSaid &#8220;deeper of course&#8221;, that comrade was wrong<br \/>\nA brick, while it&#8217;s floating, displaces its weight<br \/>\nAnd bricks are quite heavy, its weight may be great<\/p>\n<p>But bricks are not floaters they rapidly sink<br \/>\nThen displacing their volume, it&#8217;s clear if you think<br \/>\nSo if, in a boat you throw stones overboard<br \/>\nTo deepen the lake then your thinking is flawed.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nMairi_bheag The_lady_wot_writes&#8221; has a blog http:\/\/mairibheag.blogspot.com\/<br \/>\n2010\/08\/brain-teasers.html where she posed a teaser that puzzled her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brick in the Lake (sort of for Mairi bheag) by cricketjeff on August 28, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A man held a brick as he sat in a boat Then threw it away and the brick didn&#8217;t float The man then considered and rubbed at his eyes The level of water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4730","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4730\/revisions\/6777"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}