{"id":277,"date":"2009-06-02T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:05:00","slug":"constructing-a-pentagon-decagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/constructing-a-pentagon-decagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructing a pentagon \/ decagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SiUZHh7SzWI\/AAAAAAAAAsk\/rRDC72FukHg\/s1600-h\/2009-06-02_pentagon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SiUZHh7SzWI\/AAAAAAAAAsk\/rRDC72FukHg\/s400\/2009-06-02_pentagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342704150101806434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>One of my summer my art history classes is French Gothic Cathedrals: Chartres, Reims, and Amiens. Tomorrow we&#8217;ll be out on the green, laying out the apse end of a Gothic cathedral, using a rod (okay, 1\/2 rod, out of PVC), hemp string (okay, nylon), and stakes. Bonus homework for tomorrow is to draw a decagon on graph paper using only a compass and straight edge. I&#8217;m not a good instructions reader, I guess: I drew mine on plain paper with a compass and square. I had a blast. I&#8217;ve made a PDF of the above <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethleedesign.com\/assets\/construct_pentagon_decagon.pdf\">diagram with step-by-step instructions<\/a> that you can download from this link or from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethleedesign.com\/\">experimentation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my summer my art history classes is French Gothic Cathedrals: Chartres, Reims, and Amiens. Tomorrow we&#8217;ll be out on the green, laying out the apse end of a Gothic cathedral, using a rod (okay, 1\/2 rod, out of PVC), hemp string (okay, nylon), and stakes. Bonus homework for tomorrow is to draw a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/constructing-a-pentagon-decagon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Constructing a pentagon \/ decagon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geometry-drafting-pdf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-4t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}