{"id":6765,"date":"2015-10-02T20:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2015-10-05T20:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:45:54","slug":"daily_371_-_sorting_marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/daily_371_-_sorting_marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 371 – sorting marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMarbles come and go like a super brief fashion trend. A few trendsetters start it by bringing marbles to school, and then for a few weeks during spring, all the kids at Ingrid’s schools are playing with marbles during breaks. And then they’re not.<\/p>\n

For some reason, marbles are a spring thing. Autumn weather may be the same as spring weather but the kids don’t play with marbles in autumn. Except this autumn for some reason marbles have made a comeback.<\/p>\n

Ingrid has so many marbles that they don’t fit in her marbles bag. (Yes, there are special marbles bags, in sturdy cotton with a drawstring closure.) She spent this evening sorting them by type so she could decide which ones to take with her to school.<\/p>\n

The types all have names. The most common ones are cat’s eyes<\/i>. The milky white ones that look like porcelain are Porsches<\/i>. There are planets<\/i> with bands around them and speckled sausages<\/i> (i.e. salami) which are speckled of course and disco balls<\/i> which have some other kind of speckles, and so on.<\/p>\n

Some types are more valuable than others: the larger ones and the rarer ones are worth more on some kind of generally agreed Marble Value Scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marbles come and go like a super brief fashion trend. A few trendsetters start it by bringing marbles to school, and then for a few weeks during spring, all the kids at Ingrid’s schools are playing with marbles during breaks. And then they’re not. For some reason, marbles are a spring thing. Autumn weather may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}