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This article<\/a> explains an interesting new theory on why we have names for some colors, and why colors are named in the same order for almost all languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article explains an interesting new theory on why we have names for some colors, and why colors are named in the same order for almost all languages.<\/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":[12,17,16,15],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-light","category-psychology","category-vision","tag-color-perception"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-cj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":237,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=237","url_meta":{"origin":763,"position":0},"title":"Light and Color Perception","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"November 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NPR\u2019s All Things Considered had a brief piece about light and color on Monday. 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