{"id":7622,"date":"2018-12-12T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:24:15","slug":"stuff-i-learned-lately-and-how-i-learned-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7622","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I Learned Lately and How I Learned It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Woodrow Wilson\u2019s house in Princeton cost about $35,000 to build and is now\u2014rough-guessing here\u2014worth about 100 times that \u2014 I learned this at a library benefit dinner at the actual house, featuring a talk by U-Mich professor Patricia O\u2019Toole, who has a new Wilson biography: The Moralist<\/a><\/em>.<\/a> (Wilson promoted\u00a0 the neo-Tudor architectural style, and you see it all over town)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just because an online course is about a subject I\u2019m deeply interested in doesn\u2019t mean the course itself will be interesting \u2014 learned during sessions 1 & 2 of a 3-part online course about genetics in genealogy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to tell llamas and alpacas apart \u2013 at Jersey Shore Alpacas (e.g., llamas are bigger and have perkier ears)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a founding father before the Founding Fathers and, though the British called him “the greatest incendiary in all America,” he\u2019s practically forgotten \u2013 a lecture at the fantastic David Library of the American Revolution by Christian di Spigna, author of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr.Joseph Warren<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all NYC crime writers sport sleeve tattoos \u2013 disabused of this impression at the December Noir at the Bar readathon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took about 1300 years for medical science to reacquire the knowledge lost when the Alexandria library complex was destroyed \u2013 adult ed course on Egypt <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ron Chernow (and thus the musical Hamilton<\/em>) probably got a couple of the more risqu\u00e9 situations in his book wrong \u2013 also at the David Library, in a talk by Tilar Mazzeo, author of the new book, Eliza Hamilton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0I may be exhibiting early manifestations of that old person\u2019s \u201cno filter\u201d problem \u2013 you don\u2019t want to know
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The black stockings and tights I\u2019ve been wearing since Thanksgiving are navy \u2013 daylight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woodrow Wilson\u2019s house in Princeton cost about $35,000 to build and is now\u2014rough-guessing here\u2014worth about 100 times that \u2014 I learned this at a library benefit dinner at the actual house, featuring a talk by U-Mich professor Patricia O\u2019Toole, who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":"Stuff I Learned Lately and How I Learned It - sweeping up stray bits like a Dyson!","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":[62,265,122,1288,266,35,104,78],"tags":[42,73],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-biography","category-book","category-culture","category-history","category-real-life","category-the-morgue","category-travel","tag-genealogy-2","tag-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1YW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}