{"id":99,"date":"2012-08-31T21:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=99"},"modified":"2012-09-02T21:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:56:52","slug":"on-to-ca-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/08\/31\/on-to-ca-history\/","title":{"rendered":"On to CA History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civics was easy (having already studied it last week as part of US History), so I moved on to California History.\u00a0 I was a little worried that the teacher edition study book that I had borrowed last week was only one book of three in the collection.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t seen the material in books 2 &amp; 3, which is everything past the Gold Rush of 1849.\u00a0 My wife assured me though that she never taught California History past the Gold Rush.\u00a0 So why then are there books 2 &amp; 3?\u00a0 What I now had available, since I had returned the teacher book, were the Cliffs notes from the CSET booklet.\u00a0 I studied those, and wouldn\u2019t you know it, there is precious little after the Gold Rush.\u00a0 Anything beyond 1850 that had to deal with California was also adequately covered in US History.\u00a0 With this revelation, I took the practice test\u2026 and got a perfect score.\u00a0 Gee, I guess I don\u2019t need to study California history any more.\u00a0 Since I also did well on the Civics and Economics practice tests, I should pass this third of my required test subjects next week (World History\/Geography and US History\/Geography being the other two areas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civics was easy (having already studied it last week as part of US History), so I moved on to California History.\u00a0 I was a little worried that the teacher edition study book that I had borrowed last week was only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/08\/31\/on-to-ca-history\/\">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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}