{"id":506,"date":"2007-08-06T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2007-08-07T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T12:38:35","slug":"mrs-de-educational-quiz-who-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/mrs-de-educational-quiz-who-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"MR&#8217;s De-Educational Quiz- Who Is It?&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cited in modern times as one of the<strong>&#8220;Renaissance Men&#8221;<\/strong>, this man, although a genius, did not deserve the title&#8230;&#8230;  He cared nothing about <strong>Latin<\/strong> and <strong>Greek<\/strong>&#8230;..  He never wrote <strong>poems<\/strong> or <strong>orations<\/strong>.  He had little to say about <strong>philosophy<\/strong> and <strong>theology<\/strong>&#8230;..  He took no interest in <strong>history<\/strong>, nor was he an <strong>architect<\/strong> or a <strong>sculptor<\/strong>&#8230;..  Worst of all, he had no use for <strong>music<\/strong>, which (he said) had two great faults:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>one <em>mortal<\/em>, in that music ceased to exist as soon as the piece was over; and one he called <em>&#8220;wasting&#8221;<\/em>: its continual repetition, which made it <em>&#8220;contemptible.&#8221;<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Who was this famous person?&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This might be too easy, so we&#8217;ll start at <strong>Two (2) White Pawns<\/strong> for the correct answer, and add <strong>One (1) White Pawn<\/strong> <em>per day<\/em> until the answer is revealed&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cited in modern times as one of the&#8220;Renaissance Men&#8221;, this man, although a genius, did not deserve the title&#8230;&#8230; He cared nothing about Latin and Greek&#8230;.. He never wrote poems or orations. He had little to say about philosophy and theology&#8230;.. He took no interest in history, nor was he an architect or a sculptor&#8230;.. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}