{"id":3772,"date":"2011-10-12T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:58:23","slug":"the-space-between-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2011\/10\/12\/the-space-between-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The space between words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>Positive use of negative space<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I was writing<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/YfW4PBb4\"> Who Needs Words<\/a>, there came a point where I had to write about silence. After all, silence in speech, rather like white space\u00a0amongst\u00a0print &#8211; allows us to discern what is really there. At the time I used the illustration below, and asked whether it showed four black rectangles or one white cross.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3773\" style=\"border-color:initial;border-style:initial;border-width:0;\" title=\"cross\" src=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just today, however, someone sent me the wonderful picture below. Can you see the two faces on this handsome cow&#8217;s face? \u00a0A bit like the silence between words &#8211; the secret&#8217;s in the spaces!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3774\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/httprichardwiseman-wordpress-com20111012i-give-you-the-illusory-cowutm_sourcefeedburnerutm_mediumfeedutm_campaignfeed3arichardwisemansblog28richardwiseman27sblog29utm_conte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3774\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3774\" title=\"httprichardwiseman.wordpress.com20111012i-give-you-the-illusory-cowutm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RichardWisemansBlog+%28Richard+Wiseman%27s+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=FaceBook\" src=\"http:\/\/richardlittledale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/httprichardwiseman-wordpress-com20111012i-give-you-the-illusory-cowutm_sourcefeedburnerutm_mediumfeedutm_campaignfeed3arichardwisemansblog28richardwiseman27sblog29utm_conte.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image:richardwiseman.wordpress.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positive use of negative space When I was writing Who Needs Words, there came a point where I had to write about silence. After all, silence in speech, rather like white space\u00a0amongst\u00a0print &#8211; allows us to discern what is really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2011\/10\/12\/the-space-between-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}