{"id":97822,"date":"2026-07-19T04:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/a-mathematical-tribute-to-the-soccer-ball\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:27:23","slug":"a-mathematical-tribute-to-the-soccer-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/a-mathematical-tribute-to-the-soccer-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity\u2019s favorite truncated icosahedron.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/17\/science\/mathematical-tribute-soccer-ball.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity\u2019s favorite truncated icosahedron. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[220,29931,1984,7911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}