{"id":264,"date":"2009-11-23T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/23\/what-i-learned-last-week-23\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T21:50:48","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/23\/what-i-learned-last-week-23\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. each american wastes 1400 calories each day. this is about 66% of my recommended daily intake to maintain my current weight. canada is not much different&#8230; toronto throws 17,500,000 kg of food in the garbage each month. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2009\/11\/24\/tech-environment-food-waste.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. the link between a type &#8216;a&#8217; personality and heart disease was originally identified by an upholsterer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\">link &#8211; check out the episode on stress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. under the philosophy of &#8220;kraft durch freude&#8221; or &#8220;strength through joy&#8221; the nazi&#8217;s built a resort called prora on the baltic island of r\u00fcgen, germany. it consists of 8 buildings, parallel to the beach, approximately 5 km long. it has 10,000 rooms and was designed to accomodate 20,000 guests. it still exists, but is empty. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prora\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. number of unvaccinated people thus far who have died of h1n1 in denmark: 0. number of people thus far who have died of h1n1 after being vaccinated for it: 2.<\/p>\n<p>5. each month, 60,000 people call onstar to remotely unlock their cars in which they have accidentally left their keys.<\/p>\n<p>6. monsanto was the company that made agent orange. today its pesticide division makes roundup. its gm seed division ensures that its products are &#8220;roundup ready&#8221; meaning that the plants that grow from those seeds, unlike lots of other plants, will survive being sprayed with the pesticide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. each american wastes 1400 calories each day. this is about 66% of my recommended daily intake to maintain my current weight. canada is not much different&#8230; toronto throws 17,500,000 kg of food in the garbage each month. link 2. the link between a type &#8216;a&#8217; personality and heart disease was originally identified by an [&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-264","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-4g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}