{"id":993,"date":"2012-08-14T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:29:18","slug":"thinking-in-numbers-by-daniel-tammet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Thinking in Numbers by Daniel Tammet, reviewed for Culture Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To be &#8220;afraid of numbers&#8221; is a pose, a position, an aesthetic choice, as surely as not &#8220;getting&#8221; jazz, or condemning this or that kind of art as &#8220;rubbish&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PTPFN9\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/PTPFN9<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-994\" title=\"pi landscape\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pi-landscape.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pi-landscape.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pi-landscape-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be &#8220;afraid of numbers&#8221; is a pose, a position, an aesthetic choice, as surely as not &#8220;getting&#8221; jazz, or condemning this or that kind of art as &#8220;rubbish&#8221;. http:\/\/bit.ly\/PTPFN9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617,78],"tags":[135,161,192,215,223,226,237],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reviews-and-opinion","category-reviews-and-opinion","tag-autism","tag-daniel-tammet","tag-hodder-and-stoughton","tag-literature","tag-mathematics","tag-mind","tag-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}