{"id":194,"date":"2014-04-12T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-04-11T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T04:36:47","slug":"this-week-i-learned-french-martial-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2014\/04\/this-week-i-learned-french-martial-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned: French Martial Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time I see old articles doing the rounds, and one of them is the remarkable story of the only woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a related note, consider this meal. Starter: Deer terrine. Main: Cassoulet with duck fat. Dessert: Camembert cheese, chocolate cake. The menu at a fine restaurant? No — the rations given to French soldiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

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  1. The CIA disseminated Doctor Zhivago<\/em> as a weapon in the Cold War<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Car washers, horseback riding instructors, and more: the first jobs of Nobel Prize winners<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Restaurant reviews are affected by the weather<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  4. And speaking of which, here is a bullish article on the future of solar power<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. In robot news of the week, could this be the future of mining<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  6. Turning to online media, “a lot of top journalists don’t look at traffic numbers<\/a>“. And while advertising motivates bloggers to work hard, it also motivates them to chase hits<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. And lastly, how many people does it take to colonise another star system<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From time to time I see old articles doing the rounds, and one of them is the remarkable story of the only woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion. On a related note, consider this meal. Starter: Deer terrine. … 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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","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\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}