{"id":17562,"date":"2014-04-08T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/georgp-matthew-chen-answers-what-is\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:35:44","slug":"georgp-matthew-chen-answers-what-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/georgp-matthew-chen-answers-what-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17562 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/georgp-matthew-chen-answers-what-is\/attachment\/17563\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n3q4d6OxrA1qa6bvmo1_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/georgp-matthew-chen-answers-what-is\/attachment\/17564\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n3q4d6OxrA1qa6bvmo2_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/georgp-matthew-chen-answers-what-is\/attachment\/17565\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n3q4d6OxrA1qa6bvmo3_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gather.georgpetschnigg.com\/post\/82108751735\/matthew-chen-answers-what-is-programming-and\">georgp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Matthew Chen answers \u201cWhat is programming?\u201d and infuses art into science in his own special way, by finding truth in metaphor:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We tend to think that only children play pretend, but everyone does it, all the time. <strong>We are creatures of meaning.<\/strong> [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>In the audience\u2019s mind, the actor IS a prince, and that bit of paper IS the moon. That\u2019s what matters\u200a\u2014\u200athat one thing transforms into another in our minds. The lie becomes the truth.[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Programming is much the same. It is an elaborate exercise in imposing meaning, usually onto small electrical charges or flashes of light. A programmer builds elaborate fantasies, but she too has to remember not to tear the moon.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read his course\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/p\/9e35d9f4940e\">notes here<\/a>. This was part of a brown bag series at FiftyThree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>georgp: Matthew Chen answers \u201cWhat is programming?\u201d and infuses art into science in his own special way, by finding truth in metaphor: We tend to think that only children play pretend, but everyone does it, all the time. We are creatures of meaning. [\u2026] In the audience\u2019s mind, the actor IS a prince, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17566,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions\/17566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}