{"id":104,"date":"2013-07-28T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T07:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-07-28T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T07:52:53","slug":"this-week-i-learned-5-28-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/07\/this-week-i-learned-5-28-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned #5 &#8211; 28 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Articles:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalpolitics.com\/articles\/384457\/archbishopand39s-move-can-welby-restore-faith-in-the-church.thtml\">The Archbishop of Canterbury wants to create credit unions that will out-compete payday lenders<\/a> &#8212; but the really interesting part is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2013\/07\/economic-history?fsrc=rss\">what happened when Italian monks tried doing the same 500 years ago<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/07\/british-cathedral-music\">British cathedrals today face mounting challenges recruiting lay-clerks, the men of the choir<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/a-913160.html#ref=rss\">Baby Prince George, Mum and Dad, and Buckingham Palace&#8230; all made out of Lego<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/charliewarzel\/thank-you-for-using-the-internet-we-regret-to-inform-you-tha\">The rise of paid content on the Internet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/07\/26\/why-surgeons-are-a-key-target-for-some-google-glass-app-developers\/\">Could Google Glass be useful to surgeons<\/a>? And will it be practical?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-23419036\">The sizzling summer of 1976 caused permanent changes to British forests, new research suggests<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>[Finance &amp; Economics]\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/buttonwood\/2013\/07\/economies-and-markets?fsrc=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ButtonwoodsNotebook+%28The+Economist%3A+Buttonwood%27s+notebook%29\">Detroit&#8230; is an extreme example of a developed world problem &#8211; a smaller workforce trying to service debts and pay benefits promised at a time when the economy was more prosperous<\/a>.&#8221; That column is well worth reading &#8211; and pondering.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/landline\/content\/2013\/s3812656.htm\">All you wanted to know about eating, shearing, and&#8230; uh, breeding alpacas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles: The Archbishop of Canterbury wants to create credit unions that will out-compete payday lenders &#8212; but the really interesting part is what happened when Italian monks tried doing the same 500 years ago. &#8220;British cathedrals today face mounting challenges &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/07\/this-week-i-learned-5-28-july-2013\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}