{"id":494,"date":"2002-08-08T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T00:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=494"},"modified":"2006-08-08T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:38:03","slug":"proud-alumni-of-wassamatta-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"proud alumni of Wassamatta U."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/blog\/archives\/001092.html>Jane Galt<\/a> comments on the boorishness of Americans as seen by Europe: inter alia, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> They wear sweatshirts with the names of their colleges on them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well, I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: Heh.<\/p>\n<p>American college sweatshirts were immensely popular in Europe in the Seventies.  I used to see fake ones in Lausanne shop windows.  (I knew they were fake because one of them said ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY around the seal &ndash; accurate, i believe &ndash; of the University of Illinois.)  Somewhere on our family tour in 1975 we got a book of Lego designs in which the only words (other than LEGO) were UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CLARA on a child&#8217;s sweatshirt &ndash; not the school&#8217;s logo (even fake), mind you, but spelled out in custom iron-on letters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Galt comments on the boorishness of Americans as seen by Europe: inter alia, They wear sweatshirts with the names of their colleges on them. Well, I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again: Heh. American college sweatshirts were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=494\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}