{"id":5711,"date":"2010-06-11T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2010-06-11T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T08:00:42","slug":"the-n-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5711","title":{"rendered":"The N States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2256250\/\">13 Stripes and 51 Stars<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state\u2014and granted, that&#8217;s at least four ifs away\u2014federal law requires that a new star be added to the American flag. One can&#8217;t help but wonder: Where would we put it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a flag generator which allows you to vary the number of stars from 1 to 100.  There is no &#8220;valid pattern&#8221; for 29, 69 or 87 stars \u2014 none of the desired symmetries are possible \u2014  and a few of the other patterns look like &#8220;why don&#8217;t you admit two states at a time&#8221; (like 79, 89 and 92)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Stripes and 51 Stars If Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state\u2014and granted, that&#8217;s at least four ifs away\u2014federal law requires that a new star be added to the American flag. One can&#8217;t help but wonder: Where would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}