{"id":7396,"date":"2010-12-19T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T11:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2010-12-19T06:44:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T11:44:27","slug":"rectangular-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7396","title":{"rendered":"Rectangular Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/13\/arts\/13iht-design13.html?_r=1\">It&#8217;s a World of Black Rectangles<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHow is it that so many different things made in so many different ways end being black rectangles?\u201d Mr. Grcic asked. \u201cThey can be extremely elegant and sophisticated, or very basic, but they are such strong and powerful parts of our lives that it is impossible to imagine a world without them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of black rectangles,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey remind me of the black monolith that the ape-men discover outside their cave in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u20182001: A Space Odyssey.\u201d\u2019 It stands for knowledge and faith that they don\u2019t understand, but recognize and respect.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, you mean <em>this<\/em> one?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2010\/12\/monolith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2010\/12\/monolith1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"524\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/12\/monolith1.jpg 360w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/12\/monolith1-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7303\">It arrived<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a World of Black Rectangles \u201cHow is it that so many different things made in so many different ways end being black rectangles?\u201d Mr. Grcic asked. \u201cThey can be extremely elegant and sophisticated, or very basic, but they are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7396\">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":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","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=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}