{"id":6382,"date":"2013-05-20T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2013-05-22T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:58:21","slug":"richard-feynmans-ode-to-a-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/05\/richard-feynmans-ode-to-a-flower.html","title":{"rendered":"<CENTER>Richard Feynman&#8217;s &#8216;Ode to a Flower&#8217;<\/CENTER>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian posted a tribute to a bongo-playing physicist the other day, with the subhed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/10036024\/Richard-Feynman-Life-the-universe-and-everything.html\">&#8220;Flowers, music, strip clubs&#8230;Richard Feynman&#8217;s scientific curiosity knew no bounds.&#8221;<\/a> Linked to a cute cartoon video based on a 1981 BBC documentary, it gives a sense of the man as a fabulous paradox. Which is perfectly illustrated in the video by Feynman&#8217;s gravelly voiceover. Speaking with a heavy New Yawk accent that tells us he&#8217;s a streetwise city boy through and through, the Nobel laureate extolls &#8220;the wonders of science contained within a simple flower.&#8221; Now <em>that<\/em> is cute.<\/p>\n<p><CENTER><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55874553\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/55874553\">Richard Feynman &#8211; Ode To A Flower<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fraserdavidson\">Fraser Davidson<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/CENTER><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian posted a tribute to a bongo-playing physicist the other day, with the subhed &#8220;Flowers, music, strip clubs&#8230;Richard Feynman&#8217;s scientific curiosity knew no bounds.&#8221; Linked to a cute cartoon video based on a 1981 BBC documentary, it gives a sense of the man as a fabulous paradox. Which is perfectly illustrated in the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1EW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}