{"id":75,"date":"2008-09-01T23:35:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T06:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:21:01","slug":"my-favorite-optical-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/my-favorite-optical-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"My favorite optical illusion."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve always loved optical illusions, but this one by far is my favorite. Why? Some ask a question such as, &#8220;which line is longer?&#8221; By the way it&#8217;s worded, you know it&#8217;s really a\u00a0trick question and that the lines are probably the same length, even though they may not quite look that way&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one however makes you say, &#8220;no way!&#8221;&nbsp;I had to drop the image into a graphic program and look at the RGB values before I was convinced. Even still, I&#8217;m shocked whenever I look at the image. The brain is really amazing in its interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070717.html\">http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070717.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved optical illusions, but this one by far is my favorite. Why? Some ask a question such as, &#8220;which line is longer?&#8221; By the way it&#8217;s worded, you know it&#8217;s really a\u00a0trick question and that the lines are probably the same length, even though they may not quite look that way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flysoup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}