{"id":115,"date":"2009-05-10T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-05-10T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T10:46:56","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/10\/what-i-learned-last-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. wikipedia is less reliable than even i give it credit for. for example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/05\/06\/2237244&amp;art_pos=14&amp;art_pos=14\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7884121.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=geoff+martin&amp;go=Go\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, just as a start&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\" target=\"_blank\">the onion<\/a> is even funnier than i gave it credit for.<\/p>\n<p>3. the ancient jordanian city of petra is astonishing for a multitude of reasons, including <a href=\"http:\/\/nabataea.net\/treasury.html\" target=\"_blank\">al khazne<\/a>, the tunnel dug to re-route floodwaters from the siq, and the hydraulic engineering required to maintain water into the city.<\/p>\n<p>4. we are more fortunate than we know. i heard an interview with one of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/3602724.stm\" target=\"_blank\">sudan&#8217;s lost boys<\/a> who lives in halifax, nova scotia. he talked about how he wakes up every morning, and feels astonished that he has the luxury of running water, having come from a life where this was indeed a luxury&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/8039257.stm\" target=\"_blank\">monsters<\/a> are real (but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisyowl.com\/comic\/2008-12-10\" target=\"_blank\">skeletons are not<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. wikipedia is less reliable than even i give it credit for. for example, see here, here or here, just as a start&#8230; 2. the onion is even funnier than i gave it credit for. 3. the ancient jordanian city of petra is astonishing for a multitude of reasons, including al khazne, the tunnel dug [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","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-1R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}