{"id":6523,"date":"2019-01-16T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:26:53","slug":"pondering-at-populus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/?p=6523","title":{"rendered":"Pondering at Populus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a slow start to January, with no post since 2018, sorry!<\/p>\n<p>But I wanted to share a couple of images from the next cafe-physics review. Perhaps you could place yourself in a comfortable chair in a caf\u00e9 called &#8220;Populus&#8221;. Gazing out of the caf\u00e9, the front door looks like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6525\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_Door.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6525\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_Door.jpg?resize=422%2C612&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"door, Populus\" width=\"422\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_Door.jpg?w=422&amp;ssl=1 422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_Door.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decorated door, but what connections do you make?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While looking inside the caf\u00e9, you are greeted with these patterns on the wall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6527\" style=\"width: 561px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_interior2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6527\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_interior2.jpg?resize=525%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Inside Populus\" width=\"525\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_interior2.jpg?w=561&amp;ssl=1 561w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.beanthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Populus_interior2.jpg?resize=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Populus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What strikes you? What do you think about? I think there are a number of avenues for possible thought trains. Where would your thoughts go if you just sat here in Populus and pondered?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit of a slow start to January, with no post since 2018, sorry! But I wanted to share a couple of images from the next cafe-physics review. Perhaps you could place yourself in a comfortable chair in a caf\u00e9 called &#8220;Populus&#8221;. Gazing out of the caf\u00e9, the front door looks like this: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/?p=6523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pondering at Populus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[11,160],"tags":[2365,2366],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-slow","tag-populus","tag-what-would-you-think-about"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Z8Nz-1Hd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}