{"id":2064,"date":"2010-09-19T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2010-09-19T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T17:59:10","slug":"a-week-of-fine-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/a-week-of-fine-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week of Fine Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I learnt that Aristophanes and that he wrote a play called &#8220;The Birds&#8221; but more excitingly invented the phrase &#8220;Cloud Cuckoo Land&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I came across the name parallelepiped<strong> <\/strong>for the first time, I am amazed I have not come across it earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found out there is a Zilna in South Africa, so best to type Zilina correctly if you are trying to google the place in Slovakia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a Buckminster Fuller Institute. Not sure exactly what they do but they do seem to be the authority on the Worlds largest Geodesic Dome which they say is Fantasy Entertainment Complex: Kyosho Isle Japan, 710\u00a0ft (216 m).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Universal studios in Singapore has the tallest duelling roller coasters in the world (at this time 17th September 20110).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a team has a free hit in cricket the field has to stay the same (or at least it does in the pro40 tournament).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are 22 000 members of the MCC worldwide. (18 000 are entitled to watch every match at Lords).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I learnt that Aristophanes and that he wrote a play called &#8220;The Birds&#8221; but more excitingly invented the phrase &#8220;Cloud Cuckoo Land&#8221; Tuesday I came across the name parallelepiped for the first time, I am amazed I have not come across it earlier&#8230; Wednesday I found out there is a Zilna in South Africa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[352,32,15,337,96,41],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-ancient-greece","tag-cricket","tag-geography","tag-geometry","tag-mathematics","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}