{"id":10692,"date":"2026-07-07T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:45:26","slug":"the-math-trap-why-your-brain-just-fails-this-simple-age-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=10692","title":{"rendered":"The Math Trap: Why Your Brain Just Fails This Simple Age Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">When I was 2 years old, my sister was twice my age \u2014 she was 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Now I am 40 years old. How old is my sister?<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The trick is not to multiply 40 by 2. The age difference between us has always stayed the same: 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>So if I am 40 today, my sister is <strong>42 years old<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 2 years old, my sister was twice my age \u2014 she was 4. Now I am 40 years old. How old is my sister? The trick is not to multiply 40 by 2. The age difference between us has always stayed the same: 2 years. So if I am 40 today, my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}