{"id":1137,"date":"2016-02-10T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2016-02-10T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:45:37","slug":"make-a-mathy-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/make-a-mathy-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Mathy Valentine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-10-at-2.42.40-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-10-at-2.42.40-PM-300x175.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-10 at 2.42.40 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-10-at-2.42.40-PM-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-10-at-2.42.40-PM-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-10-at-2.42.40-PM-250x146.png 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-10-at-2.42.40-PM.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This just in from <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/contact\/#martha\">Mrs. McCullagh<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/educational-resources\/make-a-mathy-valentine\/\">Science Friday<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What better way to impress your valentine than with beautiful mathematical patterns?<\/p>\n<p>The human eye is naturally drawn to patterns, which is why repetitive designs adorn our homes and churches, printed fabrics and wallpapers are design staples, and dishes feature motifs of rotational symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>With a little math, you can use hearts to create captivating and ornate graphic patterns perfect for making valentines!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/educational-resources\/make-a-mathy-valentine\/\">right here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Mrs. McCullagh via Science Friday! What better way to impress your valentine than with beautiful mathematical patterns? The human eye is naturally drawn to patterns, which is why repetitive designs adorn our homes and churches, printed fabrics and wallpapers are design staples, and dishes feature motifs of rotational symmetry. With a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/make-a-mathy-valentine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make a Mathy Valentine!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"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,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-news","tag-geometry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GnmO-il","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}