{"id":85,"date":"2011-11-23T01:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2011-12-02T01:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:14:33","slug":"painting-12-sir-isaac-newton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/masquerade\/painting-12-sir-isaac-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting #12: Sir Isaac Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/page_12big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"515\" \/> <strong>BORDER PHRASE:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Jack be nimble, Jack [bee] quick, and Jack jumps over the flame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BARBED LETTER WORD:<\/strong>\u00a0SIR<\/p>\n<p><strong>RED LETTER WORD:<\/strong>\u00a0ISAAC<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORD FROM THE MASTER RIDDLE:<\/strong>\u00a0HOUR<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIDDEN HARE:<\/strong>\u00a0Hanging on the rack in the back of the picture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLUES &amp; COMMENTS:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the key to the whole book. The colors in the magic square pinned to the wall correspond to the numbers in the magic square on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/masquerade\/painting-4-the-penny-pockets-lady\">Miss Penny Pockets<\/a>&#8216; wrist. This color sequence matches the rings on the puppets; when a line is drawn from the eyes through the longest finger\/biggest toe on each creature in every picture in the book (as per the clue on the book&#8217;s title page, about using your eyes and pointing to the prize), the lines point to the letters on the border, and the master riddle phrase is spelled out: &#8220;Catherine&#8217;s long finger over shadows earth buried yellow amulet midday points the hour in light of equinox look you.&#8221; The first letter from each word in that phrase spells &#8220;Close by Ampthill,&#8221; a geographical confirmer and the heart of Kit&#8217;s riddle. The letters on Sir Issac&#8217;s magic square are the first initials of towns near Ampthill, and the numbers to which they correspond are their approximate distances from Ampthill in miles.<\/p>\n<p>The game of &#8220;Jack Be Nimble&#8221; was from a rhyme chanted during the old game of candle leaping, which was played by lacemakers on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Catherine's_Day\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catherine&#8217;s Day<\/a>. Catherine of Aragon introduced the Ampthill region to lacemaking.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Fishwick notes that picture 12 is the most important in the book&#8211;but the painting before and the painting after it in the book are red herrings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BORDER PHRASE:\u00a0&#8220;Jack be nimble, Jack [bee] quick, and Jack jumps over the flame.&#8221; BARBED LETTER WORD:\u00a0SIR RED LETTER WORD:\u00a0ISAAC WORD FROM THE MASTER RIDDLE:\u00a0HOUR HIDDEN HARE:\u00a0Hanging on the rack in the back of the picture. CLUES &amp; COMMENTS:\u00a0This is the key to the whole book. The colors in the magic square pinned to the wall [&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-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/304"}],"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=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}