{"id":707506,"date":"2010-04-02T05:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2010-04-02T05:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T09:06:25","slug":"something-beautiful-for-a-friday-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707506","title":{"rendered":"Something Beautiful for a Friday | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seed Cathedral &#8212; tens of thousands of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2010\/03\/31\/uk-pavilion-at-shanghai-expo-2010-by-thomas-heatherwick-2\/\">undulating fiber optic rods<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.dezeen.com\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dzn_SHANGHAI-EXPO-BY-THOMAS-HEATHERWICK-2.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Seed Cathedral\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;with different varieties of seeds embedded in the tips.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.dezeen.com\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dzn_SHANGHAI-EXPO-BY-THOMAS-HEATHERWICK-4.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Seed Cathedral close-up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/04\/01\/more-from-the-nexus-of-art-and-science\">SLOG<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2d56xaOP0rRLgijc6XTfVxQBo5g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2d56xaOP0rRLgijc6XTfVxQBo5g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2d56xaOP0rRLgijc6XTfVxQBo5g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2d56xaOP0rRLgijc6XTfVxQBo5g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CosmicVarianceBlog\/~4\/3WIh-om6FCo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/-1C0LnmJOxg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seed Cathedral &#8212; tens of thousands of undulating fiber optic rods&#8230; &#8230;with different varieties of seeds embedded in the tips. (h\/t SLOG)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Y3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}