{"id":9304,"date":"2012-09-07T15:39:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2012-09-07T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:43:32","slug":"it-runs-in-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9304","title":{"rendered":"It runs in families"},"content":{"rendered":"

It always fascinates me when somebody who does something remarkable in the world has a child who does a completely different remarkable thing in the world. It’s much more interesting than when any one field, be it acting, or science, or politics, runs in families. For when a child achieves something completely different<\/i> from their parent’s contribution, it speaks to a more fluid and mysterious kind of inheritance — a spark of excellence that mutates freely as it passes between generations.<\/p>\n

See if you can match up these achievements of parent:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
(A) <\/p>\nInventor of Liquid Paper<\/i><\/p>\n
(B) <\/p>\nAcademy Award winning actress whose career spanned 68 years.<\/p>\n
(C) <\/p>\nCo-founder of the American Temperance Society<\/p>\n
(D) <\/p>\nInventor of Spin Art
\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

with the achievements of the child:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
(1) <\/p>\nActor who played the young Kwai Chang Caine<\/p>\n
(2) <\/p>\nAccomplished songwriter, musician, philanthropist and one-time teen idol<\/p>\n
(3) <\/p>\nInternet pioneer, inventor of the hyperlink<\/p>\n
(4) <\/p>\nWriter of, arguably, the most politically influential book in American history
\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes it gets even more interesting, when the same<\/i> person is famous for having done at least two completely different things. See if you can match a particular person’s achievement:<\/p>\n<\/table>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
(A) <\/p>\nHollywood actress once known as “the most beautiful woman in the world”<\/p>\n
(B) <\/p>\nWriter of the lyrics to one of the world’s most beloved songs<\/p>\n
(C) <\/p>\nLegendary rock and roll guitar god<\/p>\n
(D) <\/p>\nRenowned ventriloquist
\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

with another notable achievement by the same person:<\/p>\n<\/table>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
(1) <\/p>\n Inventor of the world’s first artificial heart<\/p>\n
(2) <\/p>\nAstrophysicist who contributed to our understanding of the science of interstellar dust clouds<\/p>\n
(3) <\/p>\nCo-inventor of spread-spectrum, the underlying technology for cell phone communication<\/p>\n
(4) <\/p>\nInventor of the stereoscopic technology used in many 3D movies today
\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It always fascinates me when somebody who does something remarkable in the world has a child who does a completely different remarkable thing in the world. It’s much more interesting than when any one field, be it acting, or science, or politics, runs in families. For when a child achieves something completely different from their … Continue reading “It runs in families”<\/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\/9304"}],"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=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9314,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}