{"id":38,"date":"2010-02-02T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-02-02T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:40:00","slug":"recursion-xkcd-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/recursion-xkcd-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Recursion, XKCD Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/248\/\" alt=\"xkcd on hypotheticals\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/hypotheticals.png\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, this is a good runner up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2010\/01\/best-definition-of-recursion-evah.html\">best definition of recursion<\/a>.  Douglas Hofstadter would be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop\">proud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to start collecting these.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Comic from xkcd, used according to their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/about\/\">terms of service<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are welcome to reprint occasional comics pretty much anywhere (presentations, papers, blogs with ads, etc). If you&#8217;re not outright merchandizing, you&#8217;re probably fine. Just be sure to attribute the comic to xkcd.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">attributed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hm.  Does the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/about\/\">xkcd terms of service<\/a> apply to the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/about\/\">xkcd terms of service<\/a>?  Is that a bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2010\/02\/recursion-xkcd-style.html\">a post about recursion<\/a> referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2010\/02\/recursion-xkcd-style.html\">itself<\/a>?  How <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meta\">meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this is a good runner up for the best definition of recursion. Douglas Hofstadter would be proud. I think I&#8217;m going to start collecting these. -the Centaur Comic from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,14],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intelligence","tag-strange-loops","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}