{"id":111,"date":"2012-09-06T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:32:18","slug":"experiencing-memory-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/09\/06\/experiencing-memory-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing memory loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I studied both India and China before completing my video lecture series on turning points in US History.\u00a0 By the time I finished the video series, my family was home.\u00a0 My daughter was especially chatty this afternoon.\u00a0 Still, I decided to take one of the AP US History practice tests that I have just to see how I have retained my US History knowledge (now that I\u2019m back to studying World History again).\u00a0 The house was noisy and distracting \u2013 not ideal conditions \u2013 and I wound up with my lowest score to date, a 56%.\u00a0 This is not a real confidence booster just two days before the big test.\u00a0 Tomorrow will be nothing but review and practice test taking; I guess I&#8217;ll need to spend at least a little time on US History (though at the expense of World History).\u00a0 I\u2019m still hopeful that I can pass all sections of the CSET test on Saturday, but I am now less sure that I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I studied both India and China before completing my video lecture series on turning points in US History.\u00a0 By the time I finished the video series, my family was home.\u00a0 My daughter was especially chatty this afternoon.\u00a0 Still, I decided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/09\/06\/experiencing-memory-loss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}