{"id":2946,"date":"2014-07-15T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/15\/the-science-and-art-of-origami\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:25:53","slug":"the-science-and-art-of-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-science-and-art-of-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"The science and art of origami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/origami-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12770 lazyload\" alt=\"origami-image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/origami-image.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/273;\" \/><\/a>Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, demands patience and dexterity. For 2009 Furman graduate Rebecca Gieseking, who is studying for a Ph.D. in chemistry at Georgia Tech, it also provides a challenge to her imagination and science skills. Gieseking, who majored in art and chemistry at Furman, was the subject of an article in the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/local\/real-people-chemistry-student-finds-stress-relief-\/ngcmQ\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a><\/b>. Photos of her intricate origami designs are available on her <b><a href=\"http:\/\/rebecca.gieseking.us\/\">website<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, demands patience and dexterity. For 2009 Furman graduate Rebecca Gieseking, who is studying for a Ph.D. in chemistry at Georgia Tech, it also provides a challenge to her imagination and science skills. Gieseking, who majored in art and chemistry at Furman, was the subject of an article in the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/local\/real-people-chemistry-student-finds-stress-relief-\/ngcmQ\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a><\/b>. Photos of her intricate origami designs are available on her <b><a href=\"http:\/\/rebecca.gieseking.us\/\">website<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}