{"id":188,"date":"2009-09-07T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T12:20:26","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/07\/what-i-learned-last-week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. public nakedness is legal in england and wales. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8235959.stm\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2. quantum computing is getting closer to being a usable reality. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8236943.stm\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>3. an ancient contraceptive was alcohol made from stewed beaver testicles. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8238789.stm\">here<\/a>) i wonder who came up with this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4. there is a large collection of floating garbage &#8211; mostly plastic &#8211; swirling in a large vortex in the middle of the pacific ocean. it&#8217;s called the &#8220;great pacific garbage patch&#8221; and is roughly twice the size of texas.<\/p>\n<p>5. 50 years ago, 50% of australian men smoked. today, only 25% do.<\/p>\n<p>6. the meaning of the word &#8220;stakhanovite&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>7. the apollo 11 guidance computers had less processing power than a modern cellphone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. public nakedness is legal in england and wales. (see here) 2. quantum computing is getting closer to being a usable reality. (see here) 3. an ancient contraceptive was alcohol made from stewed beaver testicles. (see here) i wonder who came up with this one&#8230; 4. there is a large collection of floating garbage &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-32","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}