{"id":42296,"date":"2020-05-08T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42296"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:50:05","slug":"qotd-measuring-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/qotd-measuring-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Measuring beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Helen of Troy was renowned as a very beautiful woman, said to have possessed &#8220;the face that launched a thousand ships&#8221; (i.e. to invade Troy and rescue her). Her name has thus become a unit of measure of beauty. For example, a millihelen has been defined as &#8220;the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship&#8221;, whereas a negative helen is &#8220;the amount of negative beauty (i.e. ugliness) that can beach a thousand ships&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Grant, <a href=\"https:\/\/madgeniusclub.com\/2018\/01\/28\/how-do-you-measure-up\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How do you measure up?&#8221;, <em>Mad Genius Club<\/em><\/a>, 2018-01-28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen of Troy was renowned as a very beautiful woman, said to have possessed &#8220;the face that launched a thousand ships&#8221; (i.e. to invade Troy and rescue her). Her name has thus become a unit of measure of beauty. For example, a millihelen has been defined as &#8220;the amount of beauty needed to launch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[1526,7,57,41],"tags":[1502,61,1316],"class_list":["post-42296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-mycenae","tag-ships","tag-trojanwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b0c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57002,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296\/revisions\/57002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}