{"id":10217,"date":"2015-10-02T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:58:27","slug":"032366-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/10\/02\/032366-symmetry\/","title":{"rendered":"032\/366: Symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took the camera along this afternoon when I took Emmy for a walk (Kate and I are going to see <em>The Martian<\/em> tonight, so Emmy got an early dinner and stroll), and took pictures of a bunch of random stuff in a little park near our house. Including these two pictures pasted together into one:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10218\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/10\/sm_trunks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/10\/sm_trunks.jpg\" alt=\"Two tree trunks in a park near Chateau Steelypips.\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sm_trunks.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sm_trunks-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two tree trunks in a park near Chateau Steelypips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These two trees aren&#8217;t right next to each other, but I didn&#8217;t do much more than turn 90 degrees to get from one to the other. If I were attempting to pass myself off as an <em>artiste<\/em>, I would explain that this juxtaposition here is a political allegory: the tree on the right is encrusted with nasty old fungus, the tree on the left is ringed with a climbing green vine, but they&#8217;re both being killed by the stuff attached to them. <\/p>\n<p>Send me my giant paycheck, Art World&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Really, though, I just liked the color and texture contrasts of these, which is why I took the two individual shots. And when I had them up side-by-side to try to choose one for the photo of the day, they looked good together, so I said &#8220;What the hell, I&#8217;ll combine them in GIMP.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took the camera along this afternoon when I took Emmy for a walk (Kate and I are going to see The Martian tonight, so Emmy got an early dinner and stroll), and took pictures of a bunch of random stuff in a little park near our house. Including these two pictures pasted together into one:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/10\/02\/032366-symmetry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">032\/366: Symmetry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}