{"id":14336,"date":"2024-05-25T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14336"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:54:12","slug":"tiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2024\/05\/25\/tiles\/","title":{"rendered":"tiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>one of my recurring curiosities is about\u2026 tiles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe word is derived from the French word tuile, which is, in turn, from the Latin word tegula, meaning a roof tile composed of fired clay\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in Singapore, I\u2019ve always seen these breezeblocks just casually hanging out in the architecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbeffd1ea-41f5-4935-8b55-c7641806451c_1114x566.png?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbeffd1ea-41f5-4935-8b55-c7641806451c_1114x566.png?w=770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>in 2020 i tweeted \u201cI wonder who was the first person who used tiles for flooring and what the thought process there was. I know there are like ancient Roman mosaics and stuff&#8230; just thinking about that first guy who was like, yes, this stuff goes on the floor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one of my recurring curiosities is about\u2026 tiles \u201cThe word is derived from the French word tuile, which is, in turn, from the Latin word tegula, meaning a roof tile composed of fired clay\u201d. Growing up in Singapore, I\u2019ve always seen these breezeblocks just casually hanging out in the architecture&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-tiles","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14337,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions\/14337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}