{"id":14339,"date":"2014-01-20T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2014-01-20T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:40:53","slug":"the-mysterious-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14339","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning in our lab conference room I had a meeting with my students, during which we never quite looked at the whiteboard at the front of the room.<\/p>\n<p>Only after the meeting did I notice an odd little drawing in the lower left corner of the whiteboard.  I have no idea who drew it:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dragon-drop.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found the drawing a bit puzzling.  Clearly it&#8217;s a picture of a dragon, and drops of water are coming down from a cloud, and the dragon is breathing fire on the drops of water.  Beyond that its meaning seemed a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I had a revelation.  I called over the students, and pointed to the board excitedly.  &#8220;Do you know that that is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>None of them had an answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That,&#8221; I explained, much too pleased with myself, &#8220;is a dragon drop interface!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning in our lab conference room I had a meeting with my students, during which we never quite looked at the whiteboard at the front of the room. Only after the meeting did I notice an odd little drawing in the lower left corner of the whiteboard. I have no idea who drew it: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The mysterious drawing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14345,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions\/14345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}