{"id":17460,"date":"2012-12-10T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17460"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:41:34","slug":"mirror-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17460","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1145\/'>xkcd<\/a> mentions the mirror writing puzzle in the hover text for today's comic. That this is a puzzle has always puzzled me.<\/p>\n<p>The text in a mirror is backwards because you've rotated the book 180 degrees in order to present the text to the mirror. It's backwards because you've turned it backwards.<\/p>\n<p>And, there's no mirror needed to demonstrate what's going on. Take a single piece of paper, write \"HI\" in big black letters and hold it up to a light so that the text is facing the light (as if the light was a mirror). In other words, <i>show the text to the light<\/i>. Given a bright enough light and thin enough paper, you'll see through the paper and you'll see that the \"Hi\" is reversed. <\/p>\n<p>It's not vertically flipped because you didn't flip the paper vertically when you held it to the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xkcd mentions the mirror writing puzzle in the hover text for today's comic. That this is a puzzle has always puzzled me. The text in a mirror is backwards because you've rotated the book 180 degrees in order to present the text to the mirror. It's backwards because you've turned it backwards. And, there's no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}