{"id":68,"date":"2011-11-23T01:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2011-11-28T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T07:43:02","slug":"painting-4-the-penny-pockets-lady","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/masquerade\/painting-4-the-penny-pockets-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting #4: The Penny-Pockets Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/page_4big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"515\" \/> <strong>BORDER PHRASE:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Choose a number and a colour; find the pocket, now pass me by.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BARBED LETTER WORD:<\/strong>\u00a0HONEY<\/p>\n<p><strong>RED LETTER WORD:<\/strong>\u00a0COMB<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORD FROM THE MASTER RIDDLE:<\/strong>\u00a0SHADOWS<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIDDEN HARE:<\/strong>\u00a0Hiding beneath Penny-Pockets&#8217; skirt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLUES &amp; COMMENTS:<\/strong>\u00a0The magic square puzzle around Penny-Pockets&#8217; wrist is crucial to decoding the master riddle&#8217;s solution phrase; it acts as a key to the colored letters on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/masquerade\/painting-12-sir-isaac-newton\">the Sir Isaac Newton painting<\/a>. Her skirt contains the same four colors as Isaac&#8217;s paper and puppet rings, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the little girl was the young daughter of Kit&#8217;s chemist (pharmacist), and Kit painted her as he thought she might look when she was older in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/masquerade\/painting-14-crystal-aquamarine\">14th painting<\/a>. For the time being, however, she seems positively elated at the prospect of being horribly stung by bees.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Willey adds: &#8220;It is not just an ordinary magic square, (constructed by putting the numbers 1 to 16 in a 4 x 4 grid and then reversing the diagonals), but the version used by the Renaissance artist Durer in one of his engravings, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melencolia_I\" target=\"_blank\">Melancholia I<\/a><\/em>. Durer took the standard magic square and transposed the two middle vertical rows of numbers, which does not alter the square&#8217;s properties, but makes it unusual.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BORDER PHRASE:\u00a0&#8220;Choose a number and a colour; find the pocket, now pass me by.&#8221; BARBED LETTER WORD:\u00a0HONEY RED LETTER WORD:\u00a0COMB WORD FROM THE MASTER RIDDLE:\u00a0SHADOWS HIDDEN HARE:\u00a0Hiding beneath Penny-Pockets&#8217; skirt. CLUES &amp; COMMENTS:\u00a0The magic square puzzle around Penny-Pockets&#8217; wrist is crucial to decoding the master riddle&#8217;s solution phrase; it acts as a key to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}