{"id":289,"date":"2018-12-31T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=289"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:03:58","slug":"corner-reflectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/31\/corner-reflectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Corner Reflectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-287\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Corner-Reflectors-Main-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"153\" \/>I came across the following entry in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/\">Futility Closet<\/a> website that cried out for justification. \u201cAn arrangement of three mutually perpendicular planes, like those in the corner of a cube, have a pleasing property: <strong>They\u2019ll reflect a ray of light back in the direction that it came from.<\/strong>\u201d So the question is, why is this reflection property true? See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Corner-Reflectors-160423.pdf\">Corner Reflectors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the following entry in the Futility Closet website that cried out for justification. \u201cAn arrangement of three mutually perpendicular planes, like those in the corner of a cube, have a pleasing property: They\u2019ll reflect a ray of light back in the direction that it came from.\u201d So the question is, why is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-questions","tag-futility-closet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}