{"id":72,"date":"2009-05-01T01:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2013-12-19T02:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:11:04","slug":"article-in-madurai-messenger-puzzle-master-extraordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/article-in-madurai-messenger-puzzle-master-extraordinaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Article in Madurai Messenger &#8211; Puzzle Master Extraordinaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was featured in\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maduraimessenger.org\/printed-version\/2009\/may\/cover-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madurai Messenger<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watching kids, and particularly teenagers, giddily glowing over learning, is always a treat. Especially when what they are learning is mathematics, a subject that sometimes bears a dull reputation amongst youth. But T.R. Jothilingam brings his passion for puzzles to the front of the class, holding the attention of his eager pupils, all the way till the bell rings. Having always had a way with numbers, it was not until seeing his fi rst magic square, about ten years ago, that Jothilingam\u2019s interest in fun maths deeply intensifi ed. \u201cAfter discovering magic squares\u201d, he explains, \u201cI was drawn to the satisfaction I found in completing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maduraimessenger.org\/public\/images\/printed-version\/2009\/may\/cover-story\/jothilingam-explains-personal-puzzle-creations.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maduraimessenger.org\/public\/images\/printed-version\/2009\/may\/cover-story\/jothilingam-demonstrates-hand-trick.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maduraimessenger.org\/public\/images\/printed-version\/2009\/may\/cover-story\/jothilingam-s-record-breaking-sudoku-square.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"148\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maduraimessenger.org\/public\/images\/printed-version\/2009\/may\/cover-story\/a-girl-demonstrates-the-answer.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_6\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">\u00a0<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">You can take a look at the entire article here : \u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maduraimessenger.org\/printed-version\/2009\/may\/cover-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link To Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was featured in\u00a0Madurai Messenger\u00a0today.\u00a0 Watching kids, and particularly teenagers, giddily glowing over learning, is always a treat. Especially when what they are learning is mathematics, a subject that sometimes bears a dull reputation amongst youth. But T.R. Jothilingam brings his passion for puzzles to the front of the class, holding the attention of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/article-in-madurai-messenger-puzzle-master-extraordinaire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article in Madurai Messenger &#8211; Puzzle Master Extraordinaire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-in-press-madurai-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}