{"id":3786,"date":"2012-03-14T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2017-06-28T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:03:09","slug":"walk-like-a-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"Walk Like a Mathematician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul asked me if I had used the GPS on my walk this morning, and I said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t need it &#8212; I know exactly how far I walk because I just go in a big rectangle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It made me ponder the difference in our approach to walking. I am all about straight lines and precise distances, while he is much more whimsical, circuitous and adventuresome (at the ranch, we call that &#8220;following a cow path&#8221;). I was briefly baffled by his lack of preference for the grid format in his walks, until it dawned on me &#8211; he&#8217;s a mathematician!\u00a0 He&#8217;s walking in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgeier.net\/fractals\/index05.php\">fractals<\/a>!!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=3788\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3788\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bluegreenfractal-600x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul asked me if I had used the GPS on my walk this morning, and I said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t need it &#8212; I know exactly how far I walk because I just go in a big rectangle.&#8221; It made me ponder the difference in our approach to walking. I am all about straight lines and precise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-netties-world","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}