{"id":1131,"date":"2007-05-05T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2007-05-05T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T12:00:28","slug":"klein-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Klein Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleinbottle.com\/\">This site<\/a> is where you can buy a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleinbottle.com\/whats_a_klein_bottle.htm\">Klein Bottle<\/a>, a one-sided three-dimensional container with a volume of zero.  (It doesn&#8217;t specify if the zero is in liters or gallons, though.  A disappointing oversight. I don&#8217;t want to end up having to perform metric-to-imperial conversions while calculating how much nothing the thing can&#8217;t contain.)  <\/p>\n<p>They have to cheat a bit to get the thing into three-dimensional space. The nexus where the handle \/ neck intersects is displeasing, but it&#8217;s a necessary compromise because  because most glassblowers refuse to work in four dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I can see this site is ages old, almost prehistoric by internet standards. It&#8217;s so old it&#8217;s new again.  Anyway, <i>I&#8217;ve<\/i> never seen it before.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site is where you can buy a Klein Bottle, a one-sided three-dimensional container with a volume of zero. (It doesn&#8217;t specify if the zero is in liters or gallons, though. A disappointing oversight. I don&#8217;t want to end up having to perform metric-to-imperial conversions while calculating how much nothing the thing can&#8217;t contain.) They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}