{"id":19405,"date":"2017-11-28T19:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19405"},"modified":"2017-11-28T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:05:23","slug":"autodidacticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19405","title":{"rendered":"Autodidacticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was at a meeting where the person who spoke before me started out by describing themselves as an autodidact.  I was impressed.  I have always admired autodidacts, and have wondered how they manage to achieve so much.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was the next person to speak, I took the opportunity to express my admiration.  I explained to everyone that I had tried to teach myself how to be an autodidact, but had not managed to do it.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m wondering, does somebody give a course on-line that can teach you how to be an autodidact?  If so, I&#8217;d sign up for it in a minute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was at a meeting where the person who spoke before me started out by describing themselves as an autodidact. I was impressed. I have always admired autodidacts, and have wondered how they manage to achieve so much. Since I was the next person to speak, I took the opportunity to express my admiration. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autodidacticism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19406,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions\/19406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}