{"id":1019,"date":"2015-06-29T14:33:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2015-06-29T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:33:44","slug":"cool-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2015\/cool-mirrors","title":{"rendered":"Cool mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">alma mater<\/a> (I always feel a little weird calling the place where I learned a ton of facts the mother of my soul &#8211; certainly there have been more formative presences in my life!) has set up a pretty neat display of how physics, computers, and precision machining can create beauty: prima facie unremarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dR1XePtG4QA\" target=\"_blank\">mirrors that create pictures by reflecting sunlight onto concrete<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth the two minute video, though the first ten seconds will give you a good idea of what it looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My alma mater (I always feel a little weird calling the place where I learned a ton of facts the mother of my soul &#8211; certainly there have been more formative presences in my life!) has set up a pretty neat display of how physics, computers, and precision machining can create beauty: prima facie unremarkable mirrors that create pictures by reflecting sunlight onto concrete.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth the two minute video, though the first ten seconds will give you a good idea of what it looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}