{"id":1920,"date":"2026-08-19T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:01:43","slug":"many-people-dont-know__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Many people don\u2019t know."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m fairly confident that the only song that was ever released in the US that mentions a slide rule is Wonderful World, sung by Sam Cooke in 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last line of the third verse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t know what a slide rule is for\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it\u2019s safe to say that a lot of people these days can say the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-1024x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2169\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4.90034030140982;width:386px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-1024x209.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-765x156.jpg 765w, https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-1536x313.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-2048x418.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unknownsr-1200x245.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name slide rule doesn\u2019t give much hint as to its function, although its function is clear from the name in Japanese, \u8a08\u7b97\u5c3a, literally a &#8220;calculation scale,&#8221; with no sliding in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fairly confident that the only song that was ever released in the US that mentions a slide rule is Wonderful World, sung by Sam Cooke in 1960. The last line of the third verse: \u201cDon\u2019t know what a slide rule is for\u201d I think it\u2019s safe to say that a lot of people these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Many people don\u2019t know.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[282,208,283],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests","tag-interests","tag-japanese-language","tag-slide-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}