{"id":80,"date":"2012-08-23T17:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-08-24T20:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:10:34","slug":"larry-lance-and-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/08\/23\/larry-lance-and-studying\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry, Lance and studying"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got from the Civil War to WWII today in the textbook.\u00a0 The 8th<\/sup> grade text doesn\u2019t cover WWII at all!\u00a0 I was surprised by that.\u00a0 No doubt, the subject is covered in High School.\u00a0 This might somewhat explain why I thought Vietnam was<\/em> WWII for so long as a youth (until I started living on Guam \u2013 as a WWII site, I could hardly avoid the history!).\u00a0 Maybe the powers that be feel that WWII history is too harsh for K-8.\u00a0 I also went from the Civil War to the Wilson Era on the video lecture series.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, I\u2019ll finish both video and text, going up to modern day, and then I have some US History Cliffs Review books to study before taking a practice AP US History test.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see just how much US History I\u2019ve retained over the week!<\/p>\n

Both weird and sad news today: Lance Armstrong, a personal hero of mine, is giving up his fight against the USADA and their doping charges against him.\u00a0 Lance will likely be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, but more importantly, it will likely lessen the donations to his LiveStrong foundation, which fights cancer.\u00a0 That\u2019s the sad news.\u00a0 The weird news: Larry Ellison has just purchased 98% of the island of Lanai (Hawaii) from the Dole conglomerate.\u00a0 He inherits around 4K inhabitants, several restaurants, a gas station, two luxury resorts and a whole lot of scrub-grass (formerly the world\u2019s largest pineapple plantation) and several beaches.\u00a0 The previous owner wanted to plant windmills everywhere and make Lanai a power plant.\u00a0 Larry likes the quiet seclusion of the place, and may not install the windmills.\u00a0 No one (maybe not even Larry) knows what he will do with the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got from the Civil War to WWII today in the textbook.\u00a0 The 8th grade text doesn\u2019t cover WWII at all!\u00a0 I was surprised by that.\u00a0 No doubt, the subject is covered in High School.\u00a0 This might somewhat explain why … 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}