{"id":811,"date":"2012-12-13T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2012-12-14T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T02:59:41","slug":"12-posts-of-christmas-2012-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/13\/12-posts-of-christmas-2012-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Posts of Christmas, 2012 (Day 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8216;Tis the season for snowflakes, whether they are falling from the sky, or simply being made by children for decoration. \u00a0An interesting &#8220;snowflake&#8221; is Koch&#8217;s Snowflake, which is a fractal curve created by &#8220;starting with an equilateral triangle, then recursively altering each line segment as follows&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Divide the line segment into three segments of equal length.<\/li>\n<li>Draw an equilateral triangle that has the middle segment from step 1 as its base and points outward.<\/li>\n<li>Remove the line segment that is the base of the triangle from step 2.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fractal and recursive nature can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koch_snowflake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-813\" title=\"Kochsim\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kochsim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another view here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PKbwrzkupaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8216;Tis the season for snowflakes, whether they are falling from the sky, or simply being made by children for decoration. \u00a0An interesting &#8220;snowflake&#8221; is Koch&#8217;s Snowflake, which is a fractal curve created by &#8220;starting with an equilateral triangle, then recursively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/13\/12-posts-of-christmas-2012-day-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[40,86],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}