{"id":988,"date":"2008-03-26T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/devils-tongue-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:51:06","slug":"devils-tongue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/devils-tongue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil&#8217;s Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verna took this photo of our <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/coming-soon\/\">Devil&#8217;s Tongue<\/a> barrel cactus in the back yard today. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the patterns of the ribs and spines &#8211; they fit in with the mathematical topic of a post I wrote on the other blog about the Fibonacci series called <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/spiral-seashell\/\">Spiral Seashell<\/a>. The number of ribs on the cactus and the direction and twists of the spines are all related to Fibonacci numbers. When the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/flowers-of-the-day\/\">blooms come<\/a> this summer, I&#8217;ll try and get a picture of the patterns on the flowers too.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/devil-tongue.jpg' title='devil-tongue.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/devil-tongue.jpg' alt='devil-tongue.jpg' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the image for a closer look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna took this photo of our Devil&#8217;s Tongue barrel cactus in the back yard today. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the patterns of the ribs and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff","category-nerd-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}