{"id":1447,"date":"2013-10-03T18:52:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T02:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2013-10-03T18:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T02:52:23","slug":"permutations-of-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Permutations of Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=permutation+definition\" target=\"_blank\">Permutation<\/a> is a good word. It invites you to sensuously enter into the possibilities of the figure, to feel out how many ways it can play out. The word \u201cpermutation\u201d invites my mind to cast loose of its bearings and float in a multi-dimensional space, making new connections, forming new \u201cshapes\u201d that really drift like clouds into yet more shapes, or fireworks morphing into new configurations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-03-2013-093433PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"10-03-2013 09;34;33PM\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10-03-2013 09;34;33PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-03-2013-093433PM_thumb.jpg\" width=\"538\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seven is also a good number for doing this, having a multiplicity of ways it can be drawn out. Thus, geometry is far more than the extension of arithmetic as taught in school In fact, the construction of simple designs is often not even taught! Play with these figures and see where they take you. (I confess my mandalas fail in their exactitude, and I don\u2019t care. They are meant to be suggestive to you, and to empower you to play, not to get it \u201cright.\u201d) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permutation is a good word. It invites you to sensuously enter into the possibilities of the figure, to feel out how many ways it can play out. The word \u201cpermutation\u201d invites my mind to cast loose of its bearings and float in a multi-dimensional space, making new connections, forming new \u201cshapes\u201d that really drift like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-favoritethings","category-play-and-spontaneity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}